{"id":2534,"date":"2024-08-01T04:47:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T04:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2024-08-01T04:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T04:47:27","slug":"ghana-must-abandon-multi-party-system-former-calbank-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2534","title":{"rendered":"Ghana must abandon multi-party system \u2013 Former CalBank MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former CalBank MD Frank Adu Jr has advocated for Ghana to abandon its multi-party system and instead, introduce a two-party system.<\/p>\n<p>He made this statement while addressing participants at the Conversation Under the Baobab Tree: \u0186dade\u025b National Dialogue, themed \u201cSo Much Things to Say,\u201d held in Accra on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Adu emphasised the necessity for the country to officially recognise that it effectively operates as a two-party system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us agree to abandon multiparty democracy and introduce a duo party democracy. That is to say let us officially recognise that we have two parties because effectively that is what we have but let us officially recognise that we have two parties. This is controversial but hear me out,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The former MD of CalBank also called for the abolition of party manifestos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us abolish party manifestoes which only make flowery promises some of which are frankly puerile and unrealistic but most dangerously are made without recourse to the effects on national finances and long-term effects on the economy,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citinewsroom.com\"><strong>www.citinewsroom.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CalBank MD Frank Adu Jr has advocated for Ghana to abandon its multi-party system and instead, introduce a two-party system. 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