Supreme Court cites CDD-Ghana research in landmark ruling on internal party elections
Ghana’s Supreme Court has cited research by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) in a landmark ruling declaring the use of delegate-based systems by political parties to select presidential and parliamentary candidates unconstitutional. In its judgment in Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng & 2 Others v. New Patriotic Party & 4 Others, the Court held that the internal organization of political parties must conform to the democratic principles required under Article 55(5) of the 1992 Constitution....
