BUREAUCRACY AND POLITICIANS. WHO IS THE CUSTODIAN OF THE DESTINY OF OUR DEMOCRACY? Elections are just around the corner in PNG and the spotlight is now on Politicians and Political Parties, Especially the ruling party. Everything that they do will be judged, and rightly so it is the mandate of the people to judge those whom they entrusted their decision-making powers to. In PNG, it has become a tradition to love a party for a while and then hate them again due to frustrations over unfulfilled promises made before or after taking power in parliament. More so, people are not aware that most of the government's powers rest with the bureaucrats. What Do Bureaucrats Do? Most people think that bureaucrats only follow orders from the Executive Government. They carry out the decisions that the Prime Minister or Ministers of Cabinet make. Of course, anyone who works in the executive branch is there to implement decisions, but the reality of their work is more complicated. The power of th