{"id":17160,"date":"2020-09-15T06:34:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=17160"},"modified":"2020-09-15T06:34:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:34:22","slug":"presidential-filing-fees-ec-making-business-with-our-democracy-hassan-ayariga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=17160","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Filing Fees: EC making business with our democracy \u2013 Hassan Ayariga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Founder and Leader of All People\u2019s Congress (APC), Dr. Hassan Ayariga has accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana of making a business out of the country\u2019s democracy which the commission is mandated to protect.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor me, I think that democracy now is for sale and not about competency anymore. It\u2019s about those who have money and can afford and mount a campaign or contest a presidential election\u201d. Dr. Hassan Ayariga told TV3 in an interview monitored by\u00a0MyNews\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Electoral Commission in a press briefing earlier on Monday stated that presidential candidates for this year\u2019s elections are required to pay GH\u00a2100,000 as filing fees to enable them qualify to take part in the elections. Parliamentary candidates are also required to pay GH\u00a2 10000 which saw no increment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EC Chair Madam Jean Mensa also announced that filing of nomination forms begin on Monday, October 5 to Friday, October 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nomination forms would be available on the EC\u2019s website from 6:00pm Monday while candidate access the form with a unique password, the EC added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But speaking on TV3 few hours after the announcement, Dr. Hassan Ayariga sharply reprimanded the commission describing it as a \u201cweak institution\u201d adding that it hard for him to believe the announcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to believe the reason why there has been an increase of 100% of the filing fees of Presidential candidate without consultation with IPAC or the advisory Committee of the EC. This Institution has demonstrated to us that it\u2019s a weak institution\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Hassan Ayariga further noted that the EC \u201ccan\u2019t just get up from one election to another increase the filing fee of a 100 percent and you expect the ordinary Ghanaian whose salary is less than GHC 5000 a month to be able to raise an amount of GHC 100,000 to contest for a presidential elections. What this mean to me is that our multi-party participation is not being encouraged because the purpose of EC is to increase multiparty participation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:\u00a0MyNewsGH.com\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder and Leader of All People\u2019s Congress (APC), Dr. Hassan Ayariga has accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana of making a business out of the country\u2019s democracy which the commission is mandated to protect. \u201cFor me, I think that democracy now is for sale and not about competency anymore. 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