Charles Asiedu, Member of Parliament for Tano South, has suggested a novel approach to parliamentary participation. He proposes that the NPP minority caucus stay home and watch proceedings on TV, rather than attending in person. Asiedu’s suggestion comes on the heels of the NDC securing two-thirds of parliament, plus the support of four independent MPs, out of 276 members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asiedu alleged that Afenyo Markin, the minority leader, had attempted to align NDC parliament members with the president’s government, but ultimately failed. During a media conversation on January 10, 2025, Asiedu stated that if he were in charge, he would order the NPP minority caucus to stay home and receive only one-tenth of their salaries, which would be used to purchase data to watch parliamentary proceedings remotely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asiedu’s proposal is likely to spark debate about the role of opposition parties in parliament and the most effective ways to engage in the legislative process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NDC MP Proposes Reduced Salaries and Remote Participation for NPP Minority Caucus<\/p>\n
Charles Asiedu, Member of Parliament for Tano South, has suggested a novel approach to parliamentary participation. He proposes that the NPP minority caucus stay home and watch proceedings on TV, rather than attending in person. Asiedu’s suggestion comes on the heels of the NDC securing two-thirds of parliament, plus the support of four independent MPs, out of 276 members.<\/p>\n
Asiedu alleged that Afenyo Markin, the minority leader, had attempted to align NDC parliament members with the president’s government, but ultimately failed. During a media conversation on January 10, 2025, Asiedu stated that if he were in charge, he would order the NPP minority caucus to stay home and receive only one-tenth of their salaries, which would be used to purchase data to watch parliamentary proceedings remotely.<\/p>\n
Asiedu’s proposal is likely to spark debate about the role of opposition parties in parliament and the most effective ways to engage in the legislative process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4554","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\/4554","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=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}