{"id":148193,"date":"2024-02-06T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/06\/ec-must-build-consensus-on-elections-date-change-for-desired-outcome\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:58:38","slug":"ec-must-build-consensus-on-elections-date-change-for-desired-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/06\/ec-must-build-consensus-on-elections-date-change-for-desired-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"EC must build consensus on elections date change for desired outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Akuapim South, OB Amoah, is urging the Electoral Commission (EC) to build consensus among political parties over the proposed change in the date for the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The EC has suggested moving the date for both presidential and parliamentary elections from December 7th to November 7th.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), however, has stated its opposition to the proposal, arguing that it doesn\u2019t give the EC enough time to organize an incident-free poll.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on<strong> Eyewitness News<\/strong> on <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>, the legislator said the EC would only be successful if the two major political parties agreed on the date change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need consensus because no party has a two-thirds majority, and so if our colleagues in the NDC think otherwise, the bill will fail because the NPP doesn\u2019t have a two-thirds majority to say that we will go ahead with the second and third readings and pass it.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Explore the world of impactful news with CitiNewsroom on WhatsApp!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on the link to join the Citi Newsroom channel for curated, meaningful stories tailored just for YOU: https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCYzPRAYlUPudDDe53x<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No spam, just the stories that truly matter! #StayInformed #CitiNewsroom #CNRDigital<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for Akuapim South, OB Amoah, is urging the Electoral Commission (EC) to build consensus among political parties over the proposed change in the date for the general elections. The EC has suggested moving the date for both presidential and parliamentary elections from December 7th to November 7th. The opposition National Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EC must build consensus on elections date change for desired outcome - 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\/02\/06\/ec-must-build-consensus-on-elections-date-change-for-desired-outcome\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EC must build consensus on elections date change for desired outcome - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Member of Parliament for Akuapim South, OB Amoah, is urging the Electoral Commission (EC) to build consensus among political parties over the proposed change in the date for the general elections. 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