Government has laid two key pieces of legislation related to the conduct of this year’s election before parliament.
This legal instruments are the Public Election Regulation 2016 and the and the Representation of the People (Parliamentary Constituencies) Instrument, 2016.
The two documents are meant to regulate the conduct of the 2016 General elections (Presidential and Parliamentary).
The provisions in the new Legislative Instrument seek to fundamentally change elements in the previous instrument, CI 75, used for the 2012 elections.
The papers were laid notwithstanding the concerns raised by the minority over the unavailability of copies of the papers and were subsequently referred to the Subsidiary Legislation Committee chaired by Hon. O. B. Amish for consideration and report to the plenary by the First Deputy Speaker, Ebo Barton-Odro.
The documents were laid on behalf of the Majority Leader and Leader of the House by Hon. Alfred Agbesi.
Ghana heads into elections in November with the incumbent president John Mahama seeking another mandate while the NPP’s flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo is facing what is likely to be his last attempt at contesting the presidential election in Ghana.