[ 2014-12-21 ]

NDC expands Electoral College to 250,000
The governing party has expanded its Electoral
College from 4,000 to 250,000.

It is meant to broaden democratic participation
within the party as far as electing parliamentary
candidates, flagbearers and national executives is
concerned.


Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine, who is
also a member of the legal drafting team of the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) told Bernard
Nassara Saibu in an interview at the congress
grounds that the expansion is part of processes
toward deepening internal democracy in the party.

The party is currently electing national
executives for the next four years at the Baba
Yara Stadium in the Ashanti regional capital,
Kumasi.

Close to 4,000 delegates are taking part in the
elections. The expansion of the Electoral College
effectively means 250,000 delegates will be taking
part in a similar exercise in the next four
years.

“Most of the proposals that we have today…are
geared toward deepening internal democracy in the
party,” Ayine explained.

“…We are giving the franchise,
constitutionally, to a larger number of our party
members.

“It will no longer be a selected few who are
entitled to come and vote for either the MP or the
President or national executives and so on so that
is a major feat that we have chalked,” Ayine
said.

The NDC is the second party to expand its
Electoral College to allow several thousands of
party members to directly take part in internal
elections.

The main opposition New Patriotic Party did so a
few years ago. Close to 125,000 delegates took
part in the election of a flagbearer in August
this year.

Source - Starrfmonline

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