Nominations for Papua New Guinea's national election next month end today.
It's believed that record numbers have already nominated for the first poll under the Limited Preferential Voting system or LPV.
Don Wiseman reports from Port Moresby.
"Around four thousand are expected to have paid the 1000 kina or around 300 US dollar nomination fee by four o'clock today. Among them will be dozens of women who will be hoping that awareness programmes by NGOs will see them join the solitary female, Dame Carol Kidu, in the current parliament. LPV was brought in to try and create a more representative parliament because the first past the post system often returned MPs who had garnered as little as six percent of the vote. Under LPV the successful candidate is expected to take at least 50 percent plus one vote, after the counting of preferences. The process of negotiating for those preferences is expected to create a more collegial system than the present adversarial one."
