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About Tom Olga
- Tom Olga (born 16 December 1975) is a Papua New Guinea politician.
- He was the independent Governor of Western Highlands Province in the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea from 2007 to 2012.Olga, who comes from the Mul-Baiyer area, was a student leader at the University of Papua New Guinea during protests against government privatisation and land mobilisation policies in 2001 in which four students were killed in a police crackdown.
- He cited this as his reason for running for parliament when, in 2007, he challenged former Prime Minister Paias Wingti in his seat of Western Highlands Provincial.
- He was supported in his campaign by the Millennium Pack 2000, a group of provincial leaders supporting pro-development and anti-corruption initiatives, and more than thirty local councillors.Olga campaigned on a platform of fighting government corruption and mismanagement and stemming the exploitation of the country's resources.
- He also made an issue of the need for a new generation of leaders, contrasting his age of 32 with Wingti's advancing years.
- The final result was extremely close, with Wingti leading for most of the count, but ultimately losing to Olga on preferences in the final stage of counting.
- It was the last electorate to be declared, with Olga being eventually announced as the winner on 6 August.
- The result was widely considered an upset, with the potential to end Wingti's thirty-year career in national politics.
- The result enraged some of Wingti's supporters, who retaliated by blocking roads in the region and digging up a major road into the city of Mount Hagen.
- Wingti subsequently filed a petition challenging the result with the Court of Disputed Returns on 17 August.
- This challenge has not yet been resolved. He was sworn in as the provincial governor on 22 August 2007.
- Olga's first act as governor was to advertise all acting public service positions in the province, including that of the provincial administrator.
- He also pledged to increase government services to remote areas of the province.In January 2012, he joined Don Polye's new Triumph Heritage Empowerment Rural Party.He was defeated in a rematch with Wingti at the 2012 election.
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