The EC, the judiciary and Parliament must learn from the US elections – Mahama

Politics of Monday, November 9, 2020

Source: angelonline.com.gh

2020-11-09

The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, says that Ghana can learn many lessons from the recently concluded elections in the United States of America, including the independence of state institutions.

Speaking in an interview with journalists, he said that despite the fact that President Donald Trump at one point ordered a total halt to the counting of ballots, the institutions were independent and assertive.

“And that’s the kind of predictability and institution building that we look for in Ghana. That institutions can function without political influence and I wonder what would have happened if the same had happened in Ghana. But we will see how things go, ”Mahama said.

Therefore, he called for a collective effort to strengthen institutions like the Electoral Commission, the judiciary, the legislature and those institutions that anchor Ghana’s democracy to offer the proper service and mandate that the people have given them, without any partisan consideration. .

Mahama said another lesson to be learned from the American elections is that when a leader becomes divisive, pursues his personal and family interests, and abandons his allies, there will come a time when the people will rise up and make a decision that protects their interests. just like it happened in the United States.

He was very optimistic that the NDC will win the general election on December 7, 2020 so that he can work with the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

“When I talk about working together, Ghana, of course, we live in a global village, and America, as the most powerful country in the world, has connections to what we do here in Ghana. When I was president, we successfully negotiated the Millennium Challenge account. Unfortunately, this government got it wrong with the PDS, ”Mahama said.

He said that the next NDC government will try to negotiate with the Millennium Challenge Corporation to recover money to invest in the energy sector, as well as to participate in other issues of multilateral cooperation and climate change.

Mahama, who was elated that the United States had elected its first vice president, was hopeful that Ghanaian voters will do the same in the December general election, by electing him and his running mate, Professor Jane Naana Opoku- Agyemang.