The Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu said, the decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana amounts to judicial interference in a time-tested parliamentary practice and established conventions.
Engaging the media in a press conference he said:“Everywhere in the world, in civilized democracies, including the United Kingdom, the presiding officer’s vote is discounted, so, it’s not for nothing that Article 102 provides that ‘A person presiding shall have no original nor casting vote’.”
According to him, the Supreme Court ruling is just a “judicial support for e-levy and nothing more, judicial support for a struggling economy in distress and a judicial support for the restoration of a matter that they have said is constitutional; it’s repugnant to the provisions of Articles 102 and 104”.
Mr. Iddrisu maintained “this is a travesty of parliamentary justice and a stab in the growth and development of multiparty constitutional democracy built on the spirit of checks and balances”
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