The law meant to regulate the conduct of this year’s District Assembly elections, Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 89, will come into force today, June 10, 2015.
[contextly_sidebar id=”t9HSMS58lWcL9cMTOyYVOMqeg28wYNcd”]CI 89 will give legal backing to the Electoral Commission (EC) to go ahead and fix a date on which the district level elections will be held after months of dispute in organizing the event.
The District Level Elections Regulations, 2015 (C.I. 89) was laid in Parliament on March 20, 2015 and gazetted on the same day.
The 21 sitting days required by law to mature ends today, after it was presented in Parliament on Tuesday by the Parliaments Subsidiary Legislation Committee.
The Electoral Commission postponed the District Level Elections, which was originally scheduled for October 2014 to March 2015.
This was after an aggrieved candidate for the elections, Benjamin Mensah, filed a suit at the Supreme Court, seeking, among other things, a declaration that the opening and closing of nominations for the elections prior to the entry into force of the regulations was unconstitutional which he won forcing the suspension of the elections.
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By: citifmonline.com/Ghana