The Member of Parliament for Akuapim South, OB Amoah, is urging the Electoral Commission (EC) to build consensus among political parties over the proposed change in the date for the general elections.
The EC has suggested moving the date for both presidential and parliamentary elections from December 7th to November 7th.
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), however, has stated its opposition to the proposal, arguing that it doesn’t give the EC enough time to organize an incident-free poll.
In an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM, the legislator said the EC would only be successful if the two major political parties agreed on the date change.
“We need consensus because no party has a two-thirds majority, and so if our colleagues in the NDC think otherwise, the bill will fail because the NPP doesn’t have a two-thirds majority to say that we will go ahead with the second and third readings and pass it.”
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