The leadership of the opposition NDC will go into a crisis meeting in the coming days to make a conclusion on no matter if to participate or boycott the voter registration exercising to be done by the Electoral Commission.
Clement Apaak, Builsa South NDC MP, explained to Roland Walker on the AM Display Thursday that it will empower the leadership of the get together to give its last verdict on the registration exercise.
His remark follows an announcement by the Electoral Fee on Wednesday that the new voter registration work out will begin in the last 7 days of June.
Prior to this commencement, a pilot programme will be carried out in the coming days as a precursor to the most important registration.
The new sign up will make way for the organisation of the 2020 common elections, as the EC experienced always insisted that its biometric gear have develop into out of date and not healthy for purpose.
Alternatively, they also mentioned an upgrade would be much more pricey.
The EC experienced quoted $56 million as the price tag for the procurement of a new biometric system, which it explained was decreased than what it would price tag to upgrade the existing 1.
The development has resulted in innumerable debates and opposition, with the NDC major a coalition termed the Inter-Celebration Resistance versus the New Voters Sign up.
Their stance has subsequently been backed by 18 Civil Modern society Organisations (CSOs) who preserved that a new sign-up is not value for money.
Vice President for IMANI Africa, Dazzling Simmons had contended that had the EC performed a ask for for quotation, it would have discovered that the $56 million it quoted as acceptable was truly really superior.
But the ruling NPP supports the stance by the EC. The bash together with 12 other people, has preserved its assertion because 2012 that the voters sign-up was bloated, consequently the want for a new a person.
A lawful tussle in 2016, noticed the Supreme Courtroom directed the EC to purge the voters’ roll of folks who registered applying Countrywide Well being Insurance policies playing cards, as it was not evidence of citizenship.
But with the the vast majority of the political parties in favour, the EC has solved to perform the training regardless of the scourge of the coronavirus.
At an Inter-Social gathering Advisory Committee (IPAC) on Wednesday, the EC satisfied 17 political get-togethers to define its strategies.
After procuring all the required equipment, like more than 8,500 Biometric Voters Sign-up Kits (BVRs), the EC suggests it is established to sign-up close to 17 million prospective voters inside the period.
