The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has proposed to move the date of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections from December 7 to November 7, 2024.
According to the Commission, the initial proposal from the political parties seeks to provide enough time for the Commission to efficiently oversee its functions, especially in case of a runoff.
The recommendations were made at the Monday, January 22, 2024, Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting.
The EC has also proposed election days to be declared national holidays to increase public engagement in the political process.
Bossman Asare, the Commission’s Deputy Commissioner, stated that talks will resume the following week.
“The people who attended the IPAC meeting made it very clear that this is something they are in full support of; they are in sync with the EC. But it also requires that they go back and report to their party leadership to hear their views so that when they come to present the official position of their parties. This is something we are ready to meet them next week again for another meeting because we made it clear that this proposal came from you, and we think it is the right time to implement it.”
“We want to know what you think. If the parties say it’s not something they are interested in, the EC doesn’t have a problem at all. We are not doing it for ourselves; we are doing it for Ghana’s democracy and the political parties. And the parties believe this is something good for our democracy,” the Deputy Commissioner of the Electoral Commission said on Joy FM.
