The Electoral Commission has approved nominations of parliamentary candidates of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for this year\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n
The commission\u2019s Ashanti Regional Director, Serebour Quarcoo, told Citi News<\/strong> that his outfit also accepted the nomination of candidates of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) and the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP).<\/p>\n The Commission had disqualified 24 nominees<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in the region that has 47 constituencies, claiming it took the decision because the nominees could not pay the GHc10,000 filing fee it pegged for contestants in the race.<\/p>\n \u201cThose who filed for NDC, NPP, CPP and PPP all concluded the process so those disqualified are from the other parties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the EC is yet to announce parliamentary nominees it disqualified nationwide, and those it approved for the December 7 polls.<\/p>\n 13 presidential nominees disqualified<\/strong><\/p>\n This comes after the Commission on Monday disqualified 13 presidential aspirants<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from the December polls.<\/p>\n The EC explained that it rejected the nominations of the 14 aspirants because they had issues with their nomination forms.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, some of the nominees disqualified from the race have threatened legal suit against the EC.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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