Check out IEA’s 18-point position on key Constitutional review proposals

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has proposed wide-ranging changes to Ghana’s 1992 Constitution aimed at reducing presidential powers, strengthening Parliament and the Judiciary, deepening local democracy and improving accountability in public institutions.

While supporting several recommendations of the Prempeh Committee, the IEA rejected proposals to extend the terms of the President and Members of Parliament to five years, allow the President to nominate candidates for MMDCE elections and establish a state-funded Democracy Fund for the non-electioneering activities of political parties.

The government rejected the proposal, arguing that the existing constitutional arrangement adequately balanced merit, executive responsibility, judicial independence and parliamentary oversight.