The former Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, is advocating for the elimination of Ghana’s “winner-takes-all” political system.
His call for reform emerged during a stakeholder workshop organized by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to consider potential constitutional changes.
According to the Tamale South MP, the current framework centralizes political power in the winning party, marginalizing alternative political voices and compromising the integrity of an inclusive democracy.
“Winner takes away all, we must do away with that in any future constitution of Ghana so that the country can have a proportional representative government like what pertains in South Africa.
“It would have also watered down the powers of the president and we must do a cross-jurisdictional study. Kenya has amended to decouple the minister from the MP.
“What they have observed is that those ministers who are not MPs don’t care more about constituents than those who are MPs who will perform in order to keep their seat.”