Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, says he expected the Speaker of Parliament to respect the Supreme Court's decision to stay the execution of the ruling delivered yesterday.

This comes after the apex court, today, directed Alban Bagbin to suspend his ruling which declared four parliamentary seats vacant.

Parliament has thus been instructed to recognise and allow the four Members of Parliament to fully represent their constituencies and carry out their official duties.

Read also: Supreme Court stays Speaker's ruling ousting 4 MPs from Parliament The application to stay the Speaker's decision was filed by New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament, who sought the Court's intervention to halt the enforcement of the ruling that would have affected three of their colleagues and one from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).