Ghana decomracy level is increasing

Legislative functions are vested in Parliament, which consists of a unicameral 230-member body plus the Speaker. To become law, legislation must have the assent of the president, who has a qualified veto over all bills except those to which a vote of urgency is attached. Members of Parliament are popularly elected by universal adult suffrage for terms of four years, except in war time, when terms may be extended for not more than 12 months at a time beyond the four years. The members are elected for a four-year term in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote. As is predicted by Duverger's law, the voting system has encouraged Ghanaian politics into a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Elections have been held every four years since 1992. Presidential and parliamentary elections are held alongside each other, generally on 7 December.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has demanded a complete auditing of the Information Management System of the Electoral Commission (EC).
It has also requested that the voters register for the December elections should be made available to the various political parties at least two months before the elections.
The party is also demanding that all the necessary resources be made available to the EC and it must be supported to acquire the necessary technology to enable its information system to capture all the information on the voters' registers of the country.
These came out at a press conference organized by the Regional Chairmen of the party after a three-day Regional Chairmen Confab at Koforidua on Sunday. It was chaired by Mr Julius Debrah, the Eastern Regional Chairman of NDC.
The party also requested that the EC took all the necessary measures to resolve the challenges raised in the report of the committee which investigated the discrepancies in the voters' registration in Ashanti and other regions.
Mr Daniel Ohene-Agyekum, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party denied that the party went public immediately it realized that the voters' register was blotted.
He explained that when the issue came up in the Ashanti Region, the party first raised the issue on the quiet with the Ashanti Regional Director of the EC.
Mr Ohene-Agyekum said the Regional Director promised to take up the matter but after waiting for a long time without and response from the EC, the party decided to take the issue up with its national headquarters and to go public on it.
He said the report of the committee which was set up by the EC to go into the issue and the report of the subsequent review committee indicated that there were serious issues which needed to be solved before the December elections to enable the country have credible elections.
Mr John Abu, the Western Regional Chairman of the party called on the EC to develop the capacity to check and protect the database of the voters' register.
He said it must endeavour to acquire the necessary programmes that would enable all the

Politics of Ghana takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Ghana is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. The seat of government is at Osu Castle. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and Parliament. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
The Constitution that established the Fourth Republic provided a basic charter for republican democratic government. It declares Ghana to be a unitary republic with sovereignty residing in the Ghanaian people. Intended to prevent future coups, dictatorial government, and one-party states, it is designed to establish the concept of powersharing. The document reflects lessons learned from the abrogated constitutions of 1957, 1960, 1969, and 1979, and incorporates provisions and institutions drawn from British and American constitutional models. One controversial provision of the Constitution indemnifies members and appointees of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) from liability for any official act or omission during the years of PNDC rule. The Constitution calls for a system of checks and balances, with power shared between a president, a unicameral parliament, a council of state, and an independent judiciary.