Mr Javier Nart, Chief Observer
The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to the 2020 general election has called for the establishment of a reasonable deadline for the ruling on parliamentary election petitions.
That, it said, would increase stakeholder access to an effective remedy and increase public confidence.
“Parliamentary election petitions should be commenced within 21 days after declaration of results just like presidential election petitions,” it suggested in its final report on the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections held on December 7, 2020.
The European Union deployed an EU EOM to Ghana between October 31 and December 30, 2020. In total, the mission comprised 80 observers from EU member states, as well as Norway, Switzerland and Canada.
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The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is questioning the validity of the findings in the European Union’s Election Observation Mission (EOM) final report on Ghana’s 2020 election which sort to suggest that a number of media houses in the country failed to be balanced in their coverage ahead of the polls.
Executive Director for the Foundation, Sulemana Braimah. on
Eyewitness News, said the media cannot be blamed and accused of bias when political parties in opposition are more often than not unable to outdo incumbent governments during campaigning in electioneering periods.
He argued that the phenomenon is typical of every election season and cannot be interpreted to mean that media houses deliberately favour parties in power.