Tag Archives: EC’s

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Ghana has welcomed the decision by the Electoral Commission to consider changing the national election date from December 7 to a working day in November starting from 2028. The Church had advocated a change of date aimed at addressing the conflict between the December 7, 2024, national …

The Electoral Commission (EC) has indicated that its proposal to shift the date for general elections from December 7 to November might not be implemented this year. According to the Deputy EC Chairman in charge of Corporate Services, Eric Asare Bossman, the necessary legislation required for this change to be put into …

The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) has kicked against the proposal made by the Electoral Commission  to close polls at 3pm instead of 5pm. In a release sighted by GhanaWeb, it said this new plan may disenfranchise many new voters on the election day. GFL also rejected claims by the …

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako (a.k.a. Wontumi), crossed paths with Frank Kwaku Appiah (a.k.a. Appiah Stadium), a popular National Democratic Congress (NDC) activist, at a centre for the ongoing voter’s registration exercise in the Ashanti Region. The two men engaged in a heated debate about who was going to win …

Both sides of parliament have rejected the Electoral Commission’s constitutional instrument that aimed to make the Ghana card the only document for the registration of voters. In its report, the Committee of the Whole, before which the EC, National Identification Authority and the Finance Ministry appeared to speak on the …

Five political parties with no representation in Parliament have endorsed the new Constitutional Instrument (CI) proposed by the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana for the 2024 general elections. The Political Parties namely, the Liberal Party of Ghana, LPG, The Great Consolidated peoples Party GCPP, All People Congress APC , the …

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has failed to submit its accounts to the Auditor General’s Department for auditing since 2019. The Ranking Member for Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State Owned Enterprises, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, who disclosed the development to Starr News described the situation as appalling. The former Power …

  The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has punched holes into all the proposed electoral reforms by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), calling them a “sham”. At a press conference addressed by the party’s Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah on Thursday, May 20, 2021, the party subjected all the four reforms to scrutiny …

The Wenchi High Court has granted leave for the inspection of the Electoral Commission’s original documents in the ongoing Techiman South parliamentary election petition. The court says parties in the case are to meet in court on Monday, April 19, 2021, for the exercise. This was after the court ruled …