he seemed soon to be an isolated dissenter. At the end of August 2019 it came to an outburst: he protested strongly against the appointment of Ian Ling-Stuckey as Minister of the Treasury who opposed O'Neill as Shadow Treasury minister. O'Neill objected not only this appointment but condemned in general the appointment of MPS who had opposed the O'Neill-Abel cabinet. O'Neill predicted that "it will not be long before Morauta and Opposition Leader Pruaitch join Government so be prepared to make way for them." This came true in November when Marape made another government reshuffle removing members of the O'Neill/Able cabinet. He appointed then Pruaitch to Minister of Foreign Affairs. Morauta said not be interested in a Cabinet position but that he was willing to support the Cabinet as "deckhand" to the Captain Marape. Marape told O'Neill in August already to leave the government benches and go into opposition. Marape declared himself no longer a member of the PNC, but of Pangu Party. He declared to be elected by people from all parties in parliament and was therefore not answerable to PNC. Marape was supported by the Speaker, Job Pomat, who nevertheless declared himself a member of PNC. O'Neill had therefore no longer a hold on his party. PNC was also no longer the biggest party as there were many defections to Pangu Party. The latter was now the biggest party and Marape could therefore claim the right to form the government as proscribed in the constitution. On matters of policy, he condemned the repudiation of the agreement with the Energy companies about the Elk Antelope gas field. Second, he accuses the Marape government to give a false negative picture of the economy inspired by outsiders, the Australian economist Paul Flanagan and the IMF. Opposition O'Neill continued to come under fire after his move to the cross-bench and subsequently in opposition. Accusations of impropriety were led by Member for Madang and Minister for Police Bryan Kramer MP. Kramer had, as a former member of the Opposition while O'Neill was Prime Minister, accused O'Neill of holding a dual (PNG/Australian) citizenship, which would disqualify him from Parliament. O'Neill maintained this was false and challenged Kramer to provide evidence. In October 2019 an arrest warrant was served to O'Neill on the basis of official corruption. O'Neill was released on bail and in November 2019 travelled to Australia for an extended period of time.