{"id":176437,"date":"2015-12-22T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=176437"},"modified":"2015-12-22T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:44:34","slug":"chaos-in-parliament-as-minority-wins-vote-to-stop-eurobond-issue-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=176437","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chaos&#8217; in Parliament as minority wins vote to stop Eurobond issue [Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority in Parliament \u00a0on Tuesday lost a crucial vote that sought approval for\u00a0Government to issue another \u00a0Eurobond.<\/p>\n<p>A motion by the Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, asking for the approval lost by one vote, after\u00a067 MPs voted against the motion, whilst 66 voted in favour of it.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0situation compelled the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Barton Oduro, to turn to Constitutional provisions to save the day.<\/p>\n<p>In a swift move, Mr. Barton Oduro annulled the vote, and ruled that the House did not have quorum to have taken the vote in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>His intervention triggered a new wave of Minority anger, and sparked fresh acrimony between Majority and Minority MPs.<\/p>\n<p>The level of disorder generated by the Chair\u2019s decision forced suspension of proceedings in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament\u00a0needs at least half of the total of 275 MPs to make a vote on a matter legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>Click on audio below to listen to what happened in Parliament today<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/238695002&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority in Parliament \u00a0on Tuesday lost a crucial vote that sought approval for\u00a0Government to issue another \u00a0Eurobond. A motion by the Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, asking for the approval lost by one vote, after\u00a067 MPs voted against the motion, whilst 66 voted in favour of it. The \u00a0situation compelled the First Deputy Speaker of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":166739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-176437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}