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September 23, 2024
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA), Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said Ghana’s eighth legislature can’t be described as a hung Parliament.
According to him those describing the current eighth Parliament under the fourth Republic as a hung Parliament, “with the greatest respect are not well informed”.
He made this known at a stakeholders’ engagement organized by (MoPA) over the weekend that seek validation of the Constitutional Review Commissions (CRC) report of the 1992 Republican Constitution of Ghana.
He further pointed out that in a hung Parliament, there is rotation of leadership and in a hung parliament with the numerical strength they are split equally in terms of numbers.
But in the case of Ghana currently, it is one hundred and thirty-seven (137) plus one (1) independent that formers the Majority, while the Minority side has one hundred and thirty-seven (137).
“So, with the one hundred and thirty-seven (137) plus one or half is still the Majority”.
Again, in a hung Parliament you will have rotation of leadership where the Majority in the life span of the Parliament say four years, you have one side producing the Majority Leader for two years then the Minority Leader will serve as Majority leader for the remaining two years for the life span of the Parliament to end, he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com