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Ghana is a “flawed democracy” – EIU report

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  • A Charles 7 years ago

    That is the black shinning star dazzling in the sky again. Kudos let's keep it up.

  • £earn_$martphones_Repairing 7 years ago

    Helloooo! January is almost gone. Are you yet to start something? Still confused about what investment options to choose for the year to maintain steady cash flow? Think about it -everyday, both the employed and the idle are ...
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  • T and T 7 years ago

    U think we are democratic, Is it not whom U know, survival of the fittest, the law of the jungle?
    Wait till U get a case against a big king like Asante Hene or the president or even a "big" businessman. Governance in Ghana ...
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  • william 7 years ago

    By whose standards!!! No democracy is perfect! And Ghana's cannot be described as flawed as if it is doing badly!!Are we not improving, with challenges while others are retrogressing? It is better described as improving !!!!! ...
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  • trump 7 years ago

    Democracy is a flawed concept and needs to be scrapped. How does 50% plus one ignore the "losing" 49%"? What if the "plus one" got it wrong?

  • Martin 7 years ago

    Non sense.50 plus one is a fair gauge of confidence.

  • Desmond 7 years ago

    CPP introduced dictatorship, one-party state, President for life without Vice and killing of political opponents in prison.

    These evils can still be found in most African countries.

  • Nerzyn 7 years ago

    Please be careful before that evil Kwame Nkrumah feeds you to lions behind the flagstaff house those days. I can't wait to see him suffering in hell.
    CPP will never come to power.
    The most wicked president Ghana ever had

  • K.Arthur 7 years ago

    Where is NLM and Northern People's Party.

  • dunaa 7 years ago

    There is no such thing as a "perfect democracy". The closer one gets to a "perfect democracy", the closer one gets to anarchy and mob rule. Ask Athens in the 413BC time period. Ask the United States in the late twentieth cent ...
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  • GLORY OF GHANA 7 years ago

    Blame slick John Mahama and his notorious nation wreckers NDC officials. A nation embedded in looting and stealing by it's leaders with impunity can not be really described as democracy. And that was exactly what the world sa ...
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  • ABBA 7 years ago

    In fact P/NDC has been a curse for our country. What good things have these disgraced institutions been benefitial to our country. Always, they mar Ghana's image. Two evil things that have happened in Ghana are PNDC and NDC. ...
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  • Oko Agyemang 7 years ago

    You don't know what mob rule is,neither anarchy. Democracy is essentially mob rule-it's simply about numbers. And it's oppressive to the minority. Full democracy is what anarchy is,when the will of the majority would not be i ...
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  • CHARLES KOOLIE 7 years ago

    I think you want to describe the dictatorial rule of Putin of Russia. You have perfectly described the Russian political system. Putin is the law in Russia, and he is the police of Russia. Putin executes the laws in Russia, a ...
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  • Kwesi Brenu 7 years ago

    In Ghana Ashanti controls every part of our institutions. So what's the difference with Russia/Puntin ?

  • ABBA 7 years ago

    I do not know and have not seen that Asantis control every institution in Ghana. May be Asantis control you and your family.

    Know that Asantis are proud people and they cheerish their culture. All Akans culture are almost ...
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  • Mani N'yinga 7 years ago

    spare us this dead news Ghanaweb

  • Ekow Samuel. 7 years ago

    The ghana tradiction democracy is moveing on and on for the peaceful conduction as well of how they should and we wish them a very well done of the democracy inn ghana our motherland and its peaceful of our homeland ghana,God ...
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  • Kofi Adjei 7 years ago

    Ghana is a flawed democracy just like the United States of America.

  • BRITISH CITIZEN - London 7 years ago

    Papa J pave way to our democracy.

    May Papa J be blessed Amen.

  • Adjah 7 years ago

    Are you kidding me, JJ set us back by having those two useless coups and forcing himself on us for almost two decades albeit the last 8 years was marked by two fake elections. Seriously where was democracy during JJs reign of ...
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  • Nerzyn 7 years ago

    Are you a lunatic?
    Jerry is the cause of what hell Ghana is going through now. His useless coups and mass looting.
    ET Mensah, The Ahwois, Jerry himself, PV Obeng etc etc. Brought in incompetent Gen Mosquito , Mahamas etc. ...
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  • Kwetteh 7 years ago

    Papa J is limited intellectually and his wife stole state assets. Not to mention the Abacha monies that JJ cannot account for.That is the cultivated culture of the NDC and that is why they were rejected.

  • KnYc(USMC) 7 years ago

    Useless British citizen you can't even go to the library and do research about Ghana before you come here and open your mouth. Who told you JJ pave the way to democracy? Your moron JJ can't defined democracy.

  • Ashootings 7 years ago

    Norway practices proportional representation from grassroots of their governance system, from local government to parliament. Maybe it will be worth our electoral commission and MPs organise a joint study on what puts Norwa ...
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  • BANANA TREE 7 years ago

    DOES THE CONCEPT OF 50% +1 VOTE MAKE STATISTICAL SENSE AT ALL? THIS BECAUSE WHEN ONE PARTY GET HALF OF THE TOTAL VOTES CAST AND THE OTHERS SHARE THE REMAINING 50%, HOW THEN, DOES THE WINNING PARTY RECLAIM 1 VOTE FROM THE LOSI ...
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  • Aswad 7 years ago

    Nothing is perfect in this world,GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.

  • First things first 7 years ago

    I KNOW THIS FOR A FACT THAT GHANA'S DEMOCRACY IS A FACE SERVING THING. IT IS NOT A CLEAN DEMOCRATICY. THE SO CALL BULLU MAFIA'S WILL NOT LET IT WORK PROPER. ALL IS NOW DECEIT AND PRETENCS.

  • JAY 7 years ago

    True,also Ghanaian democracy is flawed because it is based on majority votes,eg Akan population is more than any tribal or ethnic group so it makes them win overall and so the smaller ethnic group don't have a fair share and ...
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  • Cool 7 years ago

    The true majority is the Non Akan. You are only the majority if you are more than 50% . Akans are not more than 50%. Indeed Asante and Akyem population together is 19.2% of the population.

    Ghana's democracy is flayed be ...
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  • sally 7 years ago

    dude akans are atleast 55 percent look b/a is 60 percent akan ashanti is 85% central 85% western region 90 accra is 40% volta is 20% eastern region is 65 northern is 10% dude the reason u win election is because western e ...
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  • K.Arthur 7 years ago

    Are you serious? NDC had more non Akans and have been in power more than any party. Am half akan and half dagomba. A true ghanaian , get your facts straight.

  • Cool 7 years ago

    THE NPP IS A RABID TRIBALISTIC AKAN HEGEMONY CLUB THAT CRIED FOUL AT EVERY STATE INSTITUTION EXCEPT THE JUDICIARY AND THEIR OWN MEDIA . LAST YEAR THEY CRIED FOULD AT THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION, POLICE ARMY, FIRE SERVICE, CUST ...
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  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    That Ghana is a 'flawed democracy' is no news. It has long been identified as such. That is why former President Obama of the USA admonished us to strengthen our Institutions that are supposed to hold up the democracy. But ...
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  • Osei Boakye 7 years ago

    EIU must come out with a better definition of democracy. Because what occurred in the recent American presidential election does not constitute democracy.
    America is an oligarchy; just look at the make up of Trump's cabine ...
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  • MAAN 7 years ago

    THANK TO NDC AS THEY HAND OVER WELL AS GOOD DEMOCRATIC GOV. IF NPP THEY WILL NOT HANDOVER.

  • AJ 7 years ago

    Good one• the tyranny of the majority is the reason for Africa's under development

  • Sekojo 7 years ago

    Goodnews

  • nokware 7 years ago

    PERFECT storm genius democracy country. Boloni stuff on GHANAWEB.

  • Roger 7 years ago

    Why don't you guys stop these nonsense scorings? Who are you to stay comfortably in your obscure airconditioned offices and cast stupid judgements on people's free choice. We can be as "deplorable" as your morbid minds can i ...
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  • Kwesi 7 years ago

    The inability of all individuals to analyze issues and make an overall effective and well informed decision in casting their votes makes democracy inherently flawed.

  • Kwesi 7 years ago

    The Chinese system is the best.

  • TRC; BRO DAN 7 years ago

    BLESSED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, NOBLE PEOPLE OF GHANA; THIS IS WHERE THE NOBLE AND COURAGEOUS NIGERIAN WOULD ASK THAT; “NA WHO CAUSE AM?” AND BY THE SAME COURAGE, THE NOBLE NIGERIAN ...
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  • Pete Johnston 7 years ago

    Can Ghanaians and Africans start making their own report and stop demining themselves with foreigners views.
    What you think of your democracy is what matters, nothing is perfect.

  • THE SENTINEL 7 years ago

    THE SO-CALLED DEMOCRACY INDEX OF THE ECONOMIC INTELIGENCE SHOULD GIVE US BREAK! WE ARE JUST MOVING FOEWARD, FORWARD EVER!

  • Mildred 7 years ago

    Go Nana! Go GHANA ????????!