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General News on Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-06-12
Jean Mensa, president of the electoral commission
The registration of limited voters is scheduled to start on Monday, June 17, 2019.
This follows the rejection of a request for an injunction to prevent the Commission from undertaking this exercise.
The exercise is expected to end on Sunday, July 7, 2019.
"The Electoral Commission announces for the information of the general public that the limited voter registration exercise will run from Monday, June 17, 2019 to Sunday, July 7, 2019," said Jean Mensah, president of the European Commission.
The restricted voter registration was originally scheduled to begin June 7 and end on June 27, but was blocked by the prosecution.
Application against registration in limited number of voters
A Ghanaian citizen, Umar Ayuba, has filed in the Supreme Court an application to prevent the EC from proceeding to the limited registration of voters following a substantial complaint that he has filed to challenge the EC decision to register in its district offices and certain areas.
According to the plaintiff, the EC Directive has no legal basis and is therefore unconstitutional.
In response to the motion for an injunction, Attorney General Godfred Dame, representing the Attorney General's Office, who was prosecuted as part of the accused alongside the Electoral Commission, described the application as incompetent on the merits and on the plan. procedural.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) already opposed the EC's attempts to conduct the exercise with district officers.
According to the NDC, this decision was not among the issues raised at the all-party advisory committee (SCPI) meeting held in March.
The party's general secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the NDC "was very different" on the issue and was "opposed to any registration system that would be restricted to EC district offices".
The party insists that the EC must decentralize the exercise to the level of the electoral zones instead of the 260 district offices and some other selected locations.
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