{"id":142488,"date":"2024-01-23T18:54:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/23\/live-update-npp-parliamentary-primary-key-battle-grounds\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:54:30","slug":"live-update-npp-parliamentary-primary-key-battle-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/23\/live-update-npp-parliamentary-primary-key-battle-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATE: NPP Parliamentary Primary: Key battle grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Last updated:  January 23, 2024 ||   6: 30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After securing a substantial majority with 169 seats in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) faced a significant setback in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The party experienced a notable decline, losing 32 seats and reducing their Members of Parliament (MPs) to 137. In this electoral shift, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) gained the majority of the lost seats, bringing their total to 137. The NPP regained the parliamentary majority when an independent candidate decided to align with the party in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 27, 2024, the NPP will once again be in the primary battlegrounds to select candidates who will contest on the party&#8217;s ticket, to restore a significant majority in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here are key battlegrounds to pay attention to.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. ASANTE AKIM CENTRAL CONSTITUENCY <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-6-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032449059 lazy\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. BANTAMA CONSTITUENCY<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032449083 lazy\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. TANO NORTH CONSTITUENCY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/T-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032448902 lazy\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. OLD TAFO CONSTITUENCY <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Vincent-and-Serwaa-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032448903 lazy\"\/><\/figure>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div><div style=\"clear: both; overflow:hidden;margin:20px auto; width:100%; min-height:280px;\">\n                                                 \n                        <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p> \n                        \n                        \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last updated: January 23, 2024 || 6: 30 PM After securing a substantial majority with 169 seats in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) faced a significant setback in 2020. The party experienced a notable decline, losing 32 seats and reducing their Members of Parliament (MPs) to 137. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LIVE UPDATE: NPP Parliamentary Primary: Key battle grounds - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/23\/live-update-npp-parliamentary-primary-key-battle-grounds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LIVE UPDATE: NPP Parliamentary Primary: Key battle grounds - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last updated: January 23, 2024 || 6: 30 PM After securing a substantial majority with 169 seats in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) faced a significant setback in 2020. 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