{"id":254787,"date":"2024-11-22T18:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T18:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/22\/majority-requests-recall-of-parliament\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T18:19:54","slug":"majority-requests-recall-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/22\/majority-requests-recall-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority requests recall of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Majority has requested that the Speaker of Parliament reconvene the House before the end of November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a memo to the Speaker, Alexander Afenyo-Markin stated that this would enable the House to consider some critical matters essential to the government&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI must emphasise, respectfully, that these are high-priority businesses for Government,\u201d the legislator added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told the Speaker that &#8220;the Sixth Meeting of the Fourth Session of Parliament which was scheduled to take place on 7th November, 2024 adjourned without any consideration of Government Business.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Mr Speaker may recall that there were a number of urgent Government Business that had been advertised and scheduled to be carried out prior to the adjournment of the House.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Majority Leader stressed that a reconvening will &#8220;demonstrate that, even as we approach the peak of the electoral season, Parliament remains steadfast in its constitutional duties and committed to advancing the national interest through bipartisan cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allow=\"autoplay\" data-src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1hvbIiXg_DZqf9K-LWFTuy1LQuczjPLvw\/preview\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes a week after the Supreme Court ruled that the Speaker&#8217;s declaration of four seats as vacant is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a brief sitting on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo said the Speaker&#8217;s declaration cannot hold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 17 October 2024, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin, declared four parliamentary seats vacant with just two months remaining until the election in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislators affected by the declaration are Peter Yaw Kwakye Ackah of the NDC, representing the Amenfi Central constituency in the Western Region; 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