Who Qualifies to Participate in the 2016 Presidential Debate?

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• Gye Nyame 11 years ago

  I do agree with Asare, it is a complete waste of time and money to include the small parties, without the small parties the 2nd round presidential elections could be eliminated and the ballot paper less confusing. It would al ...
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  I do agree with Asare, it is a complete waste of time and money to include the small parties, without the small parties the 2nd round presidential elections could be eliminated and the ballot paper less confusing. It would also force the small parties to merge with the two big parties and give more time during debates to ask relevant questions to the likely to win candidates. The parliament should raise and debate the issue in addition to reducing the number of parliamentarians. We have too many parliamentarians for a small country like Ghana.

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• Rita 11 years ago

  "for a small country like Ghana" where smalll means what? Why did you call Ghana a small country? What are you comparing Ghana with and what are your bases? The earlier we can see how big Ghans is and work towards that, the b ...
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  "for a small country like Ghana" where smalll means what? Why did you call Ghana a small country? What are you comparing Ghana with and what are your bases? The earlier we can see how big Ghans is and work towards that, the better.

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• Kogjo 11 years ago

  The cpp tradition has no equal in Ghana so for someone from the Danquah tradition to suggest the elimination of the cpp, would seem to me like the old agenda of wiping the name cpp from the political map of Ghana.
  
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  The cpp tradition has no equal in Ghana so for someone from the Danquah tradition to suggest the elimination of the cpp, would seem to me like the old agenda of wiping the name cpp from the political map of Ghana.
  
  This is a vexatious call which must be nipped in the bud quickly because the history and tradition of the cpp is too great to be relegated to the back room of Ghana politics.

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• Gye Nyame 11 years ago

  @Kogjo: But it is not about history, it is about today and the reality on the ground. CPP today is nothing like the CPP during Nkrumah's time. The party has dwindled with the formation of NDC and recently with the departure o ...
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  @Kogjo: But it is not about history, it is about today and the reality on the ground. CPP today is nothing like the CPP during Nkrumah's time. The party has dwindled with the formation of NDC and recently with the departure of Nduom and his followers and CPP has miserably failed as a viable party. What does it tell you if Samia is voted out in her father's CPP stronghold? I believe they don't have a CPP parliamentarian now, they might as well support strong independent candidates in areas they are likely to win, than waste Ghana's money by including them as a "whole" party on the ballot. We need to clean up our electoral process in order for the world to respect us and take us seriously as a country. The EC should put the question on the next election's ballot, meaning have a referendum to make the decision if the useless parliamentarians have no back bone to boot out the small useless parties, they are just a waste of space.

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• GBORTSUI 11 years ago

  THERE'LL BE NO DEBATE B'COS WE DON'T WANT TO WORK WITH DISHONEST CANDIDATES WHO WILL GO BEHIND THE SCENE TO RECEIVE QUESTION PAPERS(apo)THEN TURN ROUND TO REWARD THE ORGANISERS WITH MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS. NO WAY!!!

  THERE'LL BE NO DEBATE B'COS WE DON'T WANT TO WORK WITH DISHONEST CANDIDATES WHO WILL GO BEHIND THE SCENE TO RECEIVE QUESTION PAPERS(apo)THEN TURN ROUND TO REWARD THE ORGANISERS WITH MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS. NO WAY!!!

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

  Azar,whilst your suggestion sounds good on paper, it is undemocratic because Ghana has an open Constitution that allows all qualified persons to contest for the Presidency. Unless the qualification is limited, then an attempt ...
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  Azar,whilst your suggestion sounds good on paper, it is undemocratic because Ghana has an open Constitution that allows all qualified persons to contest for the Presidency. Unless the qualification is limited, then an attempt to disqualify bona fide presidential candidates from some aspects of the contest as sughested would not be only unfair but also undemocratic.
  
  Though I agree that there should be some form of criteria to minimise the number of candidates taking part in the presidential debate and to make it more meaningful any attempt to make it exclusively to the two leading parties (NDC/NPP) would be unfair to the smaller parties. For this reason, I will support the arrangements used for the 2012 debate.

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