Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, the Majority Leader of Parliament, has said he is contesting the calls by the Minority to declare the seats of independent parliamentary candidates in the House vacant.
The MP has announced that he has filed an injunction application at the country’s apex court to counter the Minority’s move.
Afenyo-Markin’s decision follows the former Minority Leader’s decision to invoke Article 97 (1)(g) of the Constitution to vacate the seats of three Majority MPs and one NDC MP.
According to the provision, an MP shall vacate their seat if they leave the party they were elected under or seek to remain in Parliament as an independent candidate.
Haruna Iddrisu, the former Minority Leader says he has petitioned the Office of the Speaker to declare some four seats in the House vacant.
If the motion succeeds, the NDC, currently at 137 MPs, would become the Majority party, significantly shifting the balance of power in the House.
Parliament is currently composed of 138 Majority MPs and 137 Minority MPs.
But the Effutu Member of Parliament who is the Leader of Government Business in Parliament says he does not want a situation where the case of an NPP MP, Andrew Amoako Asiamah’s seat was declared vacant in 2020 to be repeated.
He says the Supreme Court should be allowed to settle the matter.
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