25th December 2024 11:17:15 AM
1 min readThe former Foreign Affairs Minister of Ghana, Hannah Tetteh, has called on President-elect John Dramani Mahama to include a major reform of the Electoral Commission (EC) as part of his planned governance reset.
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Speaking to the press on December 24, Tetteh, who once represented the Awutu Senya West constituency, expressed deep concerns about the EC’s operations and stressed the urgent need for reforms to restore public confidence in the commission.
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Her comments come amid ongoing debates about the EC’s role in ensuring fair and credible elections, with many stakeholders advocating for changes to make the institution more independent and accountable.
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Tetteh urged the incoming government to prioritize these reforms as part of its broader agenda for addressing the country’s governance challenges.
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“The way in which they have engaged has not exactly allowed people to have confidence in their objectivity and neutrality, and I think that one of the lessons for the commission after the election should be how to also do a reset because if they don’t do a reset, I worry what people’s perceptions will be of the EC’s neutrality and competence in the elections that we have coming in the future.
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“There has to be a significant review about what it will do differently to improve public confidence because it is currently at an all-time low.”
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