We will Back EC New CI to Sanitise Ghana’s Electoral System- Majority Caucus
The Majority Caucus in Parliament has backed the Electoral Commission (EC) to introduce the new Constitutional Instrument (CI) to sanitise the country’s electoral system.
According to the Majority, the new CI being championed by the Electoral Commission would not disenfranchise Ghanaians in the 2024 general elections as been claimed by the opposition National Democratic Congress
The EC with its new C.I seek to use the Ghana Card as the source document for registration onto the voters register.
Briefing the media in parliament on Thursday, March 2, 2023, the Majority Leader, Hon Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said the new reforms would help to sanitise the electoral process.
“This is a system that has come to sanitise and purify our system. There are various institutions which recognise the integrity of the National Identification Authority and indeed the Ghana Cards and have resorted to the use of the Ghana Cards,” he said.
The Jean Mensah-led EC is proposing a new constitutional instrument through which it intends to make the Ghana card the sole identification document for voter registration.
But the Minority at an earlier press conference rejected the move by the EC and expressed doubts about the capacity of the NIA to issue Ghana cards to all applicants who have registered for the cards.
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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