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This, they said, would help find permanent solutions to the challenges facing some of the smaller political parties in the country and ultimately make multiparty democracy more formidable in the country.<\/p>\n
Key among the challenges the parties observed was raising adequate funds to build the parties\u2019 structures.<\/p>\n
The parties are the United Renaissance Party (URP), the United Progressive Party (UPP), the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) and the Power Unity Party (PUP). <\/p>\n
Representatives of the four parties made the call in an interview with the Daily Graphic. They are the Interim Chairman of the URP, Albert Okyere; the acting General Secretary and Founding Member of UPP, Gideon Nuakoh; the National Youth Organiser of DPP, Eric Tweneboa Kodua and the General Secretary of PUP, Edwin Cudjoe.<\/p>\n
URP<\/strong><\/p>\n In his reaction, Mr Okyere said he did not agree with the EC’s action because some of the political parties had been calling for a fair level playing field in multi-party democracy, hence the call for state financing of political parties.<\/p>\n He explained that the former EC Chairman, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, was very passionate about supporting the political parties to find ways of executing that agenda, adding: \u201cThe EC of years ago is not the same EC of today\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are going to seek help from the appropriate authorities, and when the time comes, you will know; we need to dialogue because, you see, it is all about financing,\u201d the interim chairman revealed.<\/p>\n He pointed out that if something was not done immediately about the challenges facing the smaller parties, the country’s multi-party democracy would be jeopardised and become a two-party state run by only the two major political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the dominant opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n