Ghana: opposition party presents its own presidential results
Ghanaian electoral commission assessors count the ballots after the close of offices on December 7 in Accra.
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In Ghana, after the re-election of outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo, the opposition NDC party continues to challenge the election results.
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With our correspondent in Accra,
Marine Jeannin
After the battle of words, the battle of numbers.
In the aftermath of the announcement of the victory of his rival, outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo, opposition candidate John Mahama described
the official results communicated by the Electoral Commission
as “
fraudulent
”.
He promised to take "
all legitimate measures to reverse this injustice
".
This Sunday, his party, the NDC, gave a press conference supposed to expose the errors of the Electoral Commission.
According to her calculations, Nana Akufo-Addo would come out ahead in the presidential election, but with only 49.62% of the vote.
Which would imply the holding of a second round, between the outgoing president and John Mahama.
The dispute also relates to the legislative elections.
According to provisional results released by the Electoral Commission, the presidential party would have won 137 seats in Parliament, while the NDC would have obtained 136. But according to the calculations of the opposition party, the NDC would in fact have won 140 seats, or the majority in Parliament.
For its part, the Electoral Commission admitted to having made errors in its calculations but affirms that this does not change the results of the presidential election, nor of the legislative ones.
Local and international observers validated the findings of the Electoral Commission, but regretted that the process was "
less transparent
" than usual.
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