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Media must participate in IPAC meetings - Mornah

Mr. Mornah indicated that if foreign missions are allowed to sit in IPAC meetings, then it is time for the media to be allowed to do same.

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei

This, he said, will prevent some political parties from prosecuting an agenda to disrupt the electoral process.

In an interview on Accra-based OKAY FM, Mr. Mornah accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of constantly misrepresenting issues discussed at IPAC meeting to the media.

At the last IPAC meeting, representatives from the Canadian and other foreign missions and the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO).

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Mr. Mornah thus indicated that if foreign missions are allowed to sit in IPAC meetings, then it is time for the media to be allowed to do same.

“In view of this sad development where NPP consistently misrepresents facts to prosecute an agenda to discredit the EC, I will formally request that the media is allowed to participate in IPAC meetings, so that they can report what really happened. If we can allow the Canadians, the French to participate, the media should be allowed,” he said.

He argued that allowing the media to participate in IPAC meetings will ensure that attempts by the NPP to discredit the Electoral Commission (EC) will cease.

According to him, since the outcome of the 2012 elections did not go in favour of the NPP, the country’s largest opposition party has been making persistent efforts to present the EC as an ineffective institution by demanding a new voters’ register, and now the call for validation.

The PNC chair stated that at the last IPAC meeting, the EC affirmed its position that it is not going to validate the register as demanded by the NPP, rather, a consensus was reached to allow the EC to carry out the limited registration exercise which starts from April 28 to May 8 after which the provisional register will be exhibited for cleaning.

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