Polls have opened this morning for the fifth democratic presidential election of the history of Ghana.
There are two main parties in Ghana: NPP and NDC.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is the ruling party at the moment, and it's been in power for the last 8 years under president Kufour. Presidential candidate for NPP is Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, one of the founding members of the NPP and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights.
On the other hand hand, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which evolved from PNDC: flight liutenant Jerry John Rawlings' party. This party has been in power for a long time through a number of coups first and winning the 192 and 1996 elections. Even though Rawlings is not the presidential candidate for the NDC, he still plays an important role in the party.
Leading candidate for NDC is Prof John Evans Atta-Mills, Phd in Law from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS.. the worls is a small place!), with a long career as an academic.
There is no substantial difference in the policies proposed by the two main parties. While NDC has a more populist approach, NPP is relying heavily on the populariry of the outgoing president Kufour.
People realize that NPP has been in power for a long time, and wish some change to enhance democracy, but on the same time are wary of the long ruling history of NDC. Voting for one or the other is in many cases a matter of tradition.
A third Party worth of mention, which for it's history and non populist approach has grown to be my favourite, is the Convention People's Party CPP, led by Paa Kwesi Ndoum, A man with a vast experience of the private sector who has lived abroad for so many years that now speaks with a funny accent.
This left looking party ruled Ghana from 1957 to 1966 under it's first president Kwame Nkrumah,
Plenty more information on the three candidates above is available here.
No Problems are expected as Ghana has a respectable history of peaceful elections. However there is a combination of factors that make people nervous.
Both NPP and NDC are very strong, and the probability of a tie is very high. Furthermore, the discovery of oil off the coast, makes the winner automatically in charge of an incredible ammount of money flowing in from 2010.
See the economist's articles here and
here. Here are some pictures from the election process.
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