Cap the number of MPs

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• Joe Bamako 11 years ago

  You are a Ghanaian so they won't listen. Send this sensible suggestion to the IMF

  You are a Ghanaian so they won't listen. Send this sensible suggestion to the IMF

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• John Nkrumah 11 years ago

  These are the kind of analysis Parliamentarians should be doing instead of the shallow arguments by the Majority and Minority leaderS.

  These are the kind of analysis Parliamentarians should be doing instead of the shallow arguments by the Majority and Minority leaderS.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

  Azar, Ghana being Ghana, I cannot foresee a situation where any of the exiting 275 MPs will be willing to give up hie or her seat and for it to disappear. For this reason, I am of the view that irrespective of any future popu ...
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  Azar, Ghana being Ghana, I cannot foresee a situation where any of the exiting 275 MPs will be willing to give up hie or her seat and for it to disappear. For this reason, I am of the view that irrespective of any future population increase, this figure should be maintained. Since Ghana's geographical area (territory) is a constant the only relevant factor for the total number of MPs should be population size (increase and decrease). In future, I suggest that the 275 MPs areredistributed proportionally every ten years (and soon after the census) on regional and constituency basis dependent on population size. This means the number of regional and constituency MPs will change from time to time depending on their populations sizes.
  
  I totally agree with your conclusion in the second part of the article. That is, the President should not initiate a constitutional amendment, it's abuse of process and a dangerous precedent.

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