{"id":247040,"date":"2016-09-09T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=247040"},"modified":"2016-09-09T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:02:19","slug":"cpp-slams-ec-for-outrageous-filing-fees-calls-for-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/cpp-slams-ec-for-outrageous-filing-fees-calls-for-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"CPP slams EC for &#8216;outrageous&#8217; filing fees, calls for protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) has kicked against the GHc 50,000 Presidential nominees are expected to pay as filing fees for their nomination forms to contest in 2016 elections in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Campaign Strategist of the party, Kwabena Kabila Bomfeh views the fees announced by the Electoral Commission (EC) to be excessive and said to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, \u201cyou do not need to have financial arm or muscle to contribute your quota to nation building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;zMHEE8MT4xgpOGsvtloH8Z9ZntKBkTtR&#8221;]In view of this, Mr. Bomfeh said his party will protest against these &#8220;outrageous&#8221; fees and called on Ghanaians to do same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYoung people who are beginning life and want to contribute by way of offering themselves in terms of leadership when they have the skill, the talents, the zeal and the capacity to lead, you are saying that if they don\u2019t have the financial muscle, they should go hang? No!\u00a0Our Electoral Commission cannot do that. We will continue protesting until the right thing is done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on Ghanaians in their millions, to stand against these outrageous figures that the Electoral Commission is demanding as filling fees for presidential and parliamentary nominees,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EC will consider requests for downward review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Commission has however said it will consider a request made by some of the political parties for the filing fees to be reviewed downward.<\/p>\n<p>The hike in the filing fee was revealed on Thursday at an Inter-Party Advisory Commission (IPAC) meeting where the Electoral Commission also pegged the filing fee for parliamentary candidates at GHc10,000.<\/p>\n<p>This is a massive jump from the filing fee for parliamentary candidates during the 2012 elections which was GHc1,000 whilst presidential candidates paid GHc10,000 the same year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow the hashtag <strong>#GhElections<\/strong> on social media for more election related stories<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) has kicked against the GHc 50,000 Presidential nominees are expected to pay as filing fees for their nomination forms to contest in 2016 elections in December. 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