MPs blow GHC390,000 on election campaigns
MPs blow GHC390,000 on election campaigns It costs aspiring Ghanaian Members of Parliament about GHC390,000 on average to carry out successful campaigns at the party and constituency level. This is according to a research conducted by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and the Center for Democratic Development (CDD). The report found that multiparty democracy and its highly competitive elections had resulted in the rising cost of political campaigns in the country. Analysing the campaign spending of aspiring Members of Parliament between 2012 and 2016, the report indicated that the cost of running successful campaigns had risen by 59% over the four-year period covering two national elections. The report warned that the rising cost may result in just a few wealthy people having the opportunity to hold public office with Members of Parliament becoming incentivized to recoup their campaign spendings rather than genuinely serv...