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The Electoral Commission (EC) has called for support from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and other stakeholders to ensure the conduct of free, fair and credible elections in the December 7 poll.
A Deputy Chairman of the EC in charge of Operations, Samuel Tettey, who made the call said free, fair and credible elections were seen by the Commission as a strategy to promote democracy.
Mr Tettey was speaking at a CSOs’ consultative session in Accra last Tuesday. The meeting sought to solicit inputs from civil society groups into education, health and other sectors into political parties’ manifestos ahead of the 2024 general election.
Peaceful elections
Updating participants in the meeting on the EC’s timetable for the general election, Mr Tettey said this year’s elections remained high on the agenda of the Commission to conduct a peaceful and successful election.
He, therefore, called on the CSOs to help educate voters with a focus on the electoral process to attain that feat. “The CSOs have a crucial role of prompting public confidence in the electoral process,” he added.
The EC Deputy Chairman in charge of Operations said the Commission would stick to the December 7 date for this year’s elections and also use the indelible ink. The Commission had earlier proposed that it was going to change the election date from December to November and also not use the indelible ink but had to abandon the proposal after public comments on the issue.
He, however, said the commission would kick-start processes for the change of the election date for the 2028 elections and beyond.
Mr Tettey said the EC had rolled out a roadmap with 46 lined-up programmes categorised into four —registration, exhibition, presidential and parliamentary elections and the runoff.
