Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the outgoing Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, has expressed strong reservations about President-elect John Dramani Mahama’s decision to nominate Alban Bagbin as Speaker of the 9th Parliament. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu believes that this move violates constitutional provisions, as the decision on parliamentary leadership should be made exclusively by the incoming Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Constitution grants both the Majority and Minority sides of Parliament the authority to nominate and elect a candidate for the Speakership. He emphasized that the presidency or the executive branch of government can only express their views or opinions regarding their comfort with the candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu advised the presidency to refrain from involving itself in legislative matters and decision-making regarding the leadership of Parliament. He urged the incoming government not to include him in the affairs concerning parliamentary affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Rejects Bagbin’s Nomination as Speaker of 9th Parliament<\/p>\n
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the outgoing Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, has expressed strong reservations about President-elect John Dramani Mahama’s decision to nominate Alban Bagbin as Speaker of the 9th Parliament. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu believes that this move violates constitutional provisions, as the decision on parliamentary leadership should be made exclusively by the incoming Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n
According to Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Constitution grants both the Majority and Minority sides of Parliament the authority to nominate and elect a candidate for the Speakership. He emphasized that the presidency or the executive branch of government can only express their views or opinions regarding their comfort with the candidate.<\/p>\n
Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu advised the presidency to refrain from involving itself in legislative matters and decision-making regarding the leadership of Parliament. He urged the incoming government not to include him in the affairs concerning parliamentary affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}