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Browsing: Ghana Budget Crisis 2024
- Ghana’s economy is in its worst condition before the country elects a successor to President Nana Akufo-Addo on December 7.
- The December elections come amid an increasingly polarized atmosphere and a challenging economic landscape precipitated by the nation’s first-ever sovereign debt default.
- According to the most recent Afrobarometer survey, 40 per cent of Ghanaians identified unemployment as the dominant issue facing the nation that requires governmental intervention.
Ghanaians will vote for a new president and 276 lawmakers on December 7, 2024, in the ninth election since the West African country transitioned to a democratic system in January 1993. Voters will elect a successor to President Nana Akufo-Addo, whose two-term mandate ends in January.
Although the Electoral Commission has approved twelve candidates for the presidential race, technically, the election is a contest between the two opposing parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The December …