The Executive Secretary of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey has emphasized the need for key stakeholders to deal with what he calls core challenges with Ghana’s electoral systems.
Some key political figures have raised concerns over what they term as flaws in Ghana’s electoral system.
Speaking at IMANI Ghana’s dialogue series on post election 2016, Dr. Akwetey called for multi-stakeholder engagements to ensure that these core challenges are resolved.
“We have to look at the cost of what we do to maintain peaceful elections and democratic stability and ask ourselves if indeed our democracy is strong. ”
“I will think that the more stable we become as a democracy and we handle our competitive elections, the lesser threat we should face and we are able to rather strengthen those things that really make us conduct our elections and also focus on the policies that elected governments will pursue and support them to achieve these goals for the nation.”
He also emphasized the need to tackle what he calls “existing threats of violence” in our democratic system.
“In a democracy there is a way in which you deal with violence, you talk about it and you find a way of tackling it,” he said.
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana