The Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has reiterated that his side of the house will fiercely defend their new parliamentary majority status despite the Supreme Court stay of execution ruling.
This arose when Speaker Alban Bagbin declared four parliamentary seats vacant on Thursday, October 17, 2024 in accordance with Article 97 (g) and (h).
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The speaker’s ruling shifted the majority in the house to the then minority NDC caucus. The NDC are now with 136 MPs whiles the NPP with 135.
“The effect of the Speaker’s declaration is that currently, we no longer have an independent member of parliament. The NPP has 135 members… This effectively utters the configurations of parliament significantly.
“The NPP group is now the minority caucus as defined in Order 6 of the Standing Orders of Parliament. The minority caucus means members of the party or parties that have the second largest number of seats in parliament.
“The NDC MPs in parliament now constitute the majority caucus in this 8th Parliament. We will jealously protect our new majority status and we will not bow, retreat nor surrender our lawfully earned status,” the majority leader remarked at a press conference yesterday, October 20.