{"id":282543,"date":"2017-01-09T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=282543"},"modified":"2017-01-09T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:05:25","slug":"ghanas-7th-parliament-the-age-dynamics-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=282543","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s 7th parliament &#8211; The age dynamics [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Parliament of Ghana, which is the seventh in the 4th Republic, is made up of relatively younger legislators who will serve for at least 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>This is as a result of the high number of relatively young new entrants after the 2016 December parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>While this cannot be used to accurately predict the effectiveness or quality of work of the House, it suggests a high level of interest in national politics and governance by the youth.<\/p>\n<p>The infographic below captures the brief facts on ages of MPs in the new Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282553\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Parliament-age-dynamic.png\" alt=\"parliament-age-dynamic\" width=\"1631\" height=\"2244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Parliament of Ghana, which is the seventh in the 4th Republic, is made up of relatively younger legislators who will serve for at least 4 years. This is as a result of the high number of relatively young new entrants after the 2016 December parliamentary elections. While this cannot be used to accurately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[2419,10,11],"tags":[3,270,2704,2705,2706],"class_list":["post-282543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infographics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-parliament","tag-ghana-parliamentarians","tag-infographic","tag-jonas-nyabor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282543","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=282543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}