Majority Leader advocates bi-partisan approval for EC Commissioners
(WorldNews Politics)

Share this with more people! Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs has repeated the call for Parliament to be involved in the selection of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners of the Electoral Commission (EC). According to him, the method would allow the EC chair to be selected through bi-partisan prior approval and thus shed the perennial cloak of mistrust and the perception of bias. He argued that per Article 55 (14) of the 1992 Constitution, the EC`s political party regulatory role relating to the scrutiny of sources of funds and campaign financing is a function that was continuously relegated to the background. Mr...