The EC has appear the choice fees for the 2024 presidential and aldermanic elections.
In a statement, the Commission adumbrated that macho presidential candidates will be appropriate to pay a choice fee of GH¢100,000 while changeable candidates and bodies with disabilities will pay GH¢75,000.
"Candidates allusive for the position of President will be appropriate to accomplish a acquittal of One Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢100,000.00) at the time of appointment their Choice Forms. Acquittal shall be by Banker's abstract and addressed to the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission. Changeable Candidates and Bodies with Disabilities are appropriate to pay Seventy-Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢75,000)."
According to the Commission, choice forms for the elections will be accessible on their website from Friday, August 2, 2024.
Candidates will accept from Monday, September 9, to Friday, September 13, 2024, to abide their choice forms.
Parliamentary candidates will be appropriate to abide their forms in quadruplicate to the Returning Officer of the Constituency they seek to represent.
The Commission additionally appear that the filing fee for aldermanic candidates is Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢50,000.00) for males and Thirty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Ghana Cedis (GH¢37,500.00) for females and Bodies with Disabilities.
But commenting added on the filing fees in a column aggregate on X, Prof. Abotsi said the EC, by charging such aerial filing fees, exacerbates the parties' banking hardship.
"Whenever candidates are accountable to pay aerial filing fees, the EC worsens the banking plight of parties & exposes them to abetment of financiers-the abutting bearing of base actors," Prof. Abotsi said.
The assistant of built-in and allusive law added declared that "filing fees accept no base in the architecture for an academy that is about funded."
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