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October 2, 2023
Majority Leader of Ghana’s Parliament Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is advocating for deliberate efforts to populate Parliaments around the world with Women as their representation has come under constant talk with their low representations.
According to him in the jurisdiction that has the first past post system, it is usually difficult to have enough representation of women in Parliaments; and questioned how do we effectively counter this; “would we require constitutional amendment?”
The Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu made this remarks at the media briefing as Ghana hosts the 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference and journalists wanted to know what is being done to get more women into the Legislature.
HE also stated that those of them who present themselves to the first past post system, it is not easy to populate your Parliament with sufficient of women just as you see in Canada and the UK and even in America, Ghana and Australia except those of them who submit to proportional representation.
“Also, has the time arrived for us as a country Ghana to have a second look at our constitution, because I believe if any authority is vested in a person, that is the president; let say to appoint women to Parliament we can all envisage what may happen there should be a better system of populating our Parliament with women”, he noted.
And further pointed out that at the end of the 66th CPC conference on going in Accra, the programme should have a communiqué which should capture the deliberation which would encapsulate the important issues so that they know what the conference was able to achieve.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com