The Minority Leader has described the Supreme Court’s declaration that the two Deputy Speakers of Parliament can vote when presiding as a travesty of justice on Parliamentary practice.
“Our attention has been drawn to a very disappointing ruling of the Supreme Court of Ghana which more or less amounts to a judicial interference in time tested Parliamentary practice and established conventions,” Iddrisu told journalists in Parliament on Wednesday (9 March).
“Everywhere in the world, in civilised democracies including the United kingdom, the presiding officers vote, is discounted, so it is not for nothing that article 102 provides that a person presiding shall have no original nor casting vote .
“The Supreme Court to put it aptly, this ruling is judicial support for E-Levy, for a struggling economy in distress, and judicial support for the restoration of a matter they have said is constitutional, it is repugnant but what can we do. This is a travesty of Parliamentary justice,” he added.
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