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Ghanaians confident in electoral body ahead of 2016 polls: report

Xinhua, August 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

A majority of Ghanaians surveyed have expressed confidence in the neutrality of the Electoral Commission ahead of the 2016 polls, a report said here Thursday.

The report by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD Ghana) said a solid majority (63 percent) believed the electoral body would perform its duties as a "neutral body guided by law", and 79 percent are for a "completely free and fair elections.

Some 93 percent of Ghanaians surveyed claimed they had registered as voters, compared with the 76 percent that were registered before the 2012 polls.

The survey was done by random sampling, with a 2,500 sample size across the 10 regions (provinces) of the country.

The report comes on the back of a recent one, also by the CDD, that indicated the majority of Ghanaians said their choice of president or party to rule them in the 2016 polls would take into accounts the level of infrastructure development.

Ghana will be holding its seventh consecutive presidential and parliamentary elections on December 7 since adopting multi-party democratic rule in 1992. Endit