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Jean Mensa \u2013 Chairperson of EC<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Electoral Commission (EC) has deleted the names of some 17 political parties from Ghana\u2019s political party register for failing to meet its requirements as stated by the law.<\/p>\n The affected political parties are Ward Nuako Brew\u2019s Democratic People\u2019s Party (DPP) Nana Agyenim Boateng Gyatab\u2019s United Front Party (UFP), United Development System (UDSP), Owuraku Amofa\u2019s Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere (EGLE), Other parties are Ghana Democratic Republican Party (GDRP), Ghana National Party (GNP), Power Unity Party (PUP), AKwasi Addai Odike\u2019s United Progressive Party (UPP), Kwabena Adjei Bambata\u2019s Reform Patriotic Democrats (RPD), People\u2019s Action Party (PAP), Kofi Wayo\u2019s United Renaissance Party (URP), Goosie Tanoh\u2019s National Reform Party (NRP) and Ramon Osei Akoto\u2019s United Love Party (ULP).<\/p>\n This follows a nationwide exercise to inspect the offices of all registered political parties in Ghana embarked on by the EC between May and June 2022.<\/p>\n However, after the exercise, the EC invoked Section 15 (3) (c) of the Political Parties Act of 2000, Act 574, which mandates it to cancel the registration of Political Parties which do not have offices at the National and Regional levels.<\/p>\n \u201cThe general public is hereby informed that the registration certificates of the underlisted political parties have been cancelled in accordance with Section 15 (3) (c) of the Political Parties Law, 2000 (Act 574) effective the 1st day of November 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n But some of the parties prior to the revocation resisted the move.<\/p>\n One of such parties is Akwasi Addai Odike, the leader of the United Progressive Party, who accused the Electoral Commission of disrespecting smaller parties following the notice to revoke the registration of 17 of them.<\/p>\n \u201cThis woman [Electoral Commission Chair] doesn\u2019t respect me as a person. Even when I want to meet her to discuss something, never has this woman allowed me to meet her,\u201d Mr. Odike complained.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the information was provided to them, so I don\u2019t understand why she makes a U-turn to throw into the public space that they cannot find our offices.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes NDC and NPP fail to submit even their audited reports, and it takes the EC to go after them for many months before.<\/p>\n By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jean Mensa \u2013 Chairperson of EC \u00a0 The Electoral Commission (EC) has deleted the names of some 17 political parties from Ghana\u2019s political party register for failing to meet its requirements as stated by the law. The affected political parties are Ward Nuako Brew\u2019s Democratic People\u2019s Party (DPP) Nana Agyenim Boateng Gyatab\u2019s United Front Party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1093480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Yes People\u2019s Party (YPP), Charles Wereko Brobby\u2019s United Ghana Movement (UGM), Obed Asamoah\u2019s Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) and Prophet Nkansah\u2019s New Vision Party (NVP).<\/p>\n