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Ghana issues guide for election candidates

Xinhua, September 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday launched a manual for aspiring candidates and their agents ahead of the December 7 general election.

The guide is to help potential candidates and their agents to understand the nomination and electoral process and outline the responsibilities that have to be undertaken when seeking to be elected to the office of president or House of Parliament.

It also highlights the duties and responsibilities of the agents, who will represent the candidates at the 29,000 polling stations in the 275 constituency collation centers.

The chairperson of the EC, Charlotte Osei, said the Guide is a source of basic information about the electoral process, but is by no means intended to be a substitute of the electoral laws.

She said achieving free, fair, credible and transparent elections was never and could not be the responsibility of the EC alone.

As a result, the Commission hopes that candidates and polling agents would play their respective roles dutifully and in good faith to ensure a peaceful electoral process.

The general election will be Ghana's 7th since it returned to constitutional democracy in 1992. Endit