Tag: Constitutional Reform

Former European Court of Human Rights and Hungarian Supreme Court judge, András Baka has been elected Hungary’s new President. Baka, 72, secured 140 votes out of 146 cast in parliament, ...

The Mahama administration has backed the proposal extending Ghana's presidential term from four years to five years while reducing the minimum age for presidential candidates from 40 to 35 years ...

Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu has backed calls by Togbe Afede XIV for judicial reform, arguing that any proposal to review the size of the Supreme Court should follow national ...

The tribunal bill has reopened debate over the balance between constitutional reform and executive decision making, with questions emerging about whether Parliament is moving ahead of the broader constitutional review ...

The Tribunals Bill has been passed by Parliament and forwarded to the President for assent as part of efforts to strengthen Ghana’s justice delivery framework. The approval follows extensive parliamentary ...

A nationwide survey conducted by Global InfoAnalytics suggests that a majority of Ghanaian voters support several key proposals contained in the Constitutional Review Committee's report submitted to President John Dramani ...

Professor H. Kwesi Prempeh, Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and Chairman of Ghana’s ongoing Constitutional Review Committee, has argued that the intense controversies engulfing the ...

At a public lecture organized by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) under the theme “Beyond the Text: Making Ghana’s Constitution Deliver Democracy”, the government reaffirmed its commitment to ...

Ghana’s constitutional framework governing the appointment and removal of the Chief Justice may soon undergo significant changes, according to Dr. Kwame Sarpong Asiedu, a fellow at the Center for Democratic ...

The debate over internal party democracy has taken center stage as concerns mount about the escalating cost of participating in political leadership. Legal scholar and governance advocate, Prof. Stephen Kwaku ...