OB Amoah, the Member of Parliament for Akuapim South, is pleading with the Electoral Commission (EC) to foster agreement among political parties about the suggested modification of the general election schedule.
The European Commission has proposed changing the date of the December 7th presidential and parliamentary elections to November 7th.
However, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which opposes the plan, has made it clear that it won’t allow the EC enough time to plan an incident-free election.
In an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM, the legislator said the EC would only be successful if the two major political parties agreed on the date change.
“We need consensus because no party has a two-thirds majority, and so if our colleagues in the NDC think otherwise, the bill will fail because the NPP doesn’t have a two-thirds majority to say that we will go ahead with the second and third readings and pass it.”
