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Other candidates include Nana Kwame Bediako, a businessman popular with young voters and Alan Kyerematen, who defected from the ruling NPP party last year.<\/p>\n
Close to 19 million Ghanaians are registered to vote.<\/p>\n
A man is once again guaranteed to become the next president, despite Ghana recently bringing in tougher legislation to drive up the numbers of women in frontline politics.<\/p>\n
The only female presidential candidate in this election – Akua Donkor of the Ghana Freedom Party – died in October. Yet her name will still be listed on ballot papers because the candidate chosen to succeed her was disqualified.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s general election also sees voters in 275 constituencies across the country choosing their members of parliament.<\/p>\n
Since the return of multi-party politics to Ghana in 1992, only candidates from either the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have won the presidency.<\/p>\n
No party has ever won more than two consecutive terms in power.<\/p>\n
Voters have a 10-hour window on Saturday to cast their ballots – with polling stations set to open at 07:00 GMT and close at 17:00.<\/p>\n
Results are set to be announced within three days.<\/p>\n
In order to win in the first round, a presidential candidate must gain more than 50% of the vote. Failing that, the top two contenders will enter a run-off vote to take place by the end of December.<\/p>\n
As campaigns came to a close on Friday, Bawumia said of his main rival: “What is clear is that notwithstanding the challenges we’ve had, we have performed better than the government of John Dramani Mahama.”<\/p>\n
While Mahama told supporters “it is a choice between the Ghana we have today and the Ghana we want together. A Ghana of opportunity, prosperity, and justice for all.”<\/p>\n
Ghanaians have been hit particularly hard by inflation in recent years, which reached a peak of 54.1% in 2022. Although it has since come down, many thousands of people have been pushed into poverty and living standards have suffered, says the World Bank, external<\/span>.<\/p>\nThat same year, Ghana defaulted on its debt repayments and the government is still in lengthy negotiations with international lenders to try and restructure the loans.<\/p>\n
Unemployment is also at a high – particularly among the young, whose views could have a big impact on the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Damian Zane<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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