EC set to amend electoral timetable for December 7 polls

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July 21, 2016 11:22 PM

Parliament on Thursday rejected the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2016 seeking to change the month of voting from December 7 to November 7.

EC Chair, Charlotte Osei

The Electoral Commission has announced that it will begin processes to amend the electoral calendar to suit the December 7 election date.

The bill could not get the backing of 184 Members of Parliament.

125 MPs voted for the bill while 97 voted against it.

Deputy Communications Director of the Commission, Yussif Ayub has assured Ghanaians that the EC is ready to work with the December 7 election date.

“The only thing we have to do now is to alter our timetable to take into consideration the December 7 date now because we had altered so that our programmes will be towards November 7. Now that the elections is going back to its old place, then it means that we have to alter our timetable,” he told Radio Ghana.

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