The Majority in Parliament has expressed their approval of the Supreme Court’s recent decision, which enables four MPs whose seats were previously declared vacant by the Speaker to continue representing their constituencies and fulfilling their official duties.
In a post shared on the X page of Citi FM on October 19, 2024, the MPs proclaimed, “We are the majority, and we will remain the majority! NPP MPs passionately declare as they exit the Supreme Court after the court halted the execution of the Speaker’s ruling on four vacant seats.”
This statement was made as they exited the Supreme Court, where the court had halted the enforcement of the Speaker’s ruling regarding the four vacant seats.
A video accompanying the post shows the NPP caucus exiting the court premises in high spirits.
This ruling follows the Supreme Court’s issuance of a stay on Speaker Alban Bagbin’s earlier decision, which had declared the seats of Cynthia Morrison (Agona West), Kwadjo Asante (Suhum), Peter Kwakye Ackah (Amenfi Central), and Andrew Asiamah (Fomena) vacant.
With this directive, the MPs can fully represent their constituents and carry out their duties.
The stay of execution was requested by New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament, who sought the court’s intervention to prevent the implementation of a ruling that would have impacted three NPP members and one from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).