The Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) is set to host an evaluation workshop with small political parties to review the 2020 general elections.
The workshop which is scheduled for today, Thursday, April 22, 2021 will take place at the Mensvic Grand Hotel, East Legon, Accra.
It will seek to “evaluate the performance of the small parties, the reasons for their abysmal performance in the last election and to understand why the smaller parties campaigned against multiparty local governance reform, which was intended to strengthen them and make them more functional in Ghana’s multiparty politics.”
The objectives of the workshop are listed below:
(i) To convene the smaller parties to share their experiences and to discuss their poor performance in the 2020 elections.(ii) To understand the reason why some smaller parties kicked against multiparty local governance which is intended to strengthen their participation in Ghana’s democracy and
(iii) To discuss the way forward for strengthening smaller parties in Ghana’s multiparty democracy.
The workshop is strictly by invitation to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Details of the workshop are here