{"id":142482,"date":"2015-08-11T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=142482"},"modified":"2015-08-11T18:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:39:57","slug":"former-majority-leader-angry-with-ec-over-ropal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/08\/former-majority-leader-angry-with-ec-over-ropal\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Majority leader angry with EC over ROPAL"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former majority leader in Ghana’s Parliament, Felix Owusu Agyapong has accused the Electoral Commission(EC) of failing to implement the \u00a0Representation of People Amendment Law (ROPAL).<\/p>\n
The controversial law was passed in 2005 to enable Ghanaians living abroad to vote in national elections but has not been implemented since the then President Kufuor signed it into law.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a forum on electoral accountability organized by the Institute for Democratic Governance, (IDEG) the former Minister for Parliamentary Affairs insists the law has not been implemented due to the ineffectiveness of the EC and not because the it is a bad law.<\/p>\n
“When I led parliament to pass the ROPAL bill we felt it was needed, because let’s face it, even countries who were not at our level of democratic development had passed such laws long time.”<\/p>\n