{"id":142561,"date":"2024-01-24T00:34:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T00:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/24\/changing-december-7-election-date-has-nothing-to-do-with-sdas-petition-ec-clarifies\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T00:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T00:34:56","slug":"changing-december-7-election-date-has-nothing-to-do-with-sdas-petition-ec-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/24\/changing-december-7-election-date-has-nothing-to-do-with-sdas-petition-ec-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing December 7 election date has nothing to do with SDA&#8217;s petition- EC clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Electoral Commission of Ghana says its push for a change in the December 7 election date is unrelated to the petition submitted\u00a0by the\u00a0Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SDA church, about a week ago, petitioned EC to consider changing the date of this year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The church argues that the December 7 date falls on a Sabbath, a day considered holy by Adventists and dedicated to worshiping God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, January 23, the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, suggested shifting the date for both presidential and parliamentary elections from December 7 to November 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission in charge of Corporate Services, Dr Bossman Asare, said the Commission has for years been pushing for a change in the election date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that political parties had raised concerns about the limited time December 7 provided to have either a run-off or correct certain errors that might have occurred during the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on<strong> JoyFM\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>Newsnight<\/strong>, he said \u201cLet me state very clearly that it had nothing to do with what the Adventist church brought in the form of a petition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis was something the Commission had thought about from 2020, but we did not have enough time to be able to put it into action in 2020. Yesterday [Monday], when we met at IPAC, we made it very clear to the parties that this was a proposal that came from the political parties themselves in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe reasons they gave at the time was that in the event there was a run-off, the EC will have exactly 21 days, and right after the 21 days, the next one week would be inauguration.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cApart from that too, we gave a reason that the time for the EC to work on organising the elections within three weeks will be very, very tight. Beyond that, the time for the inauguration you have a new government and an old government leaving office, the time will be too short,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Bossman added that he encouraged the parties to support the EC push for an amendment as it is one of the ways his outfit could improve the electoral process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, he said representatives of the various political parties at the IPAC meeting requested time to deliberate with their party executives and revert.<\/p>\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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission of Ghana says its push for a change in the December 7 election date is unrelated to the petition submitted\u00a0by the\u00a0Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. The SDA church, about a week ago, petitioned EC to consider changing the date of this year&#8217;s election. 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