The immediate-past Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has noted that Ghana’s 8th Parliament has at now has no Majority in Parliament.
According to him a majority can only be determined after its first sitting on Friday January 15, 2021.
Currently, both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have 137 Parliamentarians each with one independent MP making up the 275 total number of MPs in Ghana’s Parliament.
Speaking to Kasapa FM’s Akwasi Nsiah, the former Majority leader explained that till the independent Fomena MP makes his position on who to join officially now that he’s sworn in, there can be no clear majority.
“Yes, he’s declared his intention to work with the NPP side which will make us the Majority caucus. But at the time he made that declaration he was an MP-elect who was yet to be sworn in. So now that he’s been sworn-in, his position will be made official when the 8th Parliament has its first sitting on Friday,” he was quoted by Kasapaonline.
Source: GhanaFeed.com