Paulias Matane

Sir Paulias Nguna Matane GCMG, OBE ( born September 21, 1931) was from 29 June 2004 until December 13, 2010 Governor General of Papua New Guinea.

Paulias Matane was by 50 votes elected by the Parliament of Papua New Guinea on 27 May 2004 to the Governor-General, and was therefore a representative of Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. Pato Kakeraya, his rival candidate, received 46 votes. The choice of Governor-General was six months previously failed because of procedural errors during the nomination process. Although Matane was sworn in, stopped the controversy because Kakeraya the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea an application for annulment of the elections made ​​, but this was rejected.

Matane is a Tolai from the province of East New Britain, speaks Kuanua and is a priest of the United Church in Papua New Guinea. He has written many books written in a deliberately kept extremely simple English in order to convince his readers in Papua New Guinea believe that books are a useful source of information, and that books should be viewed not only as something that is done only for foreigners. From 1975 to 1980, Paulias Matane Ambassador of Papua New Guinea in the USA. He founded the United News Agency of Melanesia. Many years had Matane a counselor column in the Malaysian newspaper The National.

In 2010 Matane was re-elected in controversial circumstances; the election was declared in December 2010 by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.