You Cannot Do Whatever You Like Even As A President: Alban Bagbin Speaks About A Fresh Democracy

The Speaker of Parliament, Right Honorable Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has sent a bold message to Ghanaians about a democracy that he wants Ghana to adopt. Speaking at an Africa Regional Trade and Security Workshop, Alban Bagbin explained that it is about time that Ghana adopt the “consensuational” democracy which is being practiced at Netherland and Switzerland. He described this democracy as a system of arriving at decisions through the most representative parliamentary coalition possible.

According to him, this system will not allow any President in the ruling party to come out and order things to be done in his or her own way.

“It is a serious plead that I am making. This is because it has been the concept that because a person has been elected to lead the country, that means that at all times the person can do what he wants to do”

He added that the government must imbibe this culture of give and take which focuses on achieving a national interest and not one individual or parochial partisan interest. He said that he will never want and pray that there would be a backsliding of the systems in the country.

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