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Ghana’s constitution allows an excessively powerful presidency to influence all levels of administration – it must be reformed.<\/p>\n
John Mahama won nearly 57% of the votes in Ghana’s December 2024 presidential elections. His National Democratic Congress (NDC) secured about two-thirds of the 276 seats in Parliament. Mahama was previously the country’s president from 2012-17.<\/p>\n
The early concession by Mahama’s main opponent, then vice-president Mahamudu Bawumia of the New Patriotic Party, and the peaceful…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Ghana’s constitution allows an excessively powerful presidency to influence all levels of administration – it must be reformed. John Mahama won nearly 57% of the votes in Ghana’s December 2024 presidential elections. His National Democratic Congress (NDC) secured about two-thirds of the 276 seats in Parliament. Mahama was previously the country’s president from 2012-17. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660809:9029ff7ffde365295d41f723ad47c54d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,9729,4508,4509,8226,50800,7780,39400,257,6099,254],"class_list":["post-193016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-constitutional","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-grasp","tag-mahama","tag-nettle","tag-news","tag-reform","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660809:9029ff7ffde365295d41f723ad47c54d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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