RADIO NEW ZEALAND
PETER O'NEILL SAYS HE WILL MOVE TO dissolve parliament next month and go to early polls to end the current political impasse.
Mr O'Neill came to power after Sir Michael Somare was ruled to have missed too many sessions of parliament while he was out of the country receiving medical treatment.
Mr O'Neill says he said he would seek his government's blessing to bring forward the scheduled June general election.
However, a Radio New Zealand International correspondent in Port Moresby said that, while Mr O'Neill has the backing of a majority of MPs, it is unlikely they would vote to dissolve parliament.
Meanwhile, Sir Michael's supporters insist that Colonel Yaura Sasa – holed up with 20 rebel soldiers in Taurama Barracks- is still the legitimate commander of the Defence Force.
But the O'Neill government says police and defence personnel are in the process of apprehending those who conducted the mutiny.
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