Pollster and manager editor for the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson, says the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has learned bitter lessons in protecting the sitting lawmakers in the 2020 election.
This comes on the back of 19 NPP members of Parliament who have decided not to return to Parliament; 28 others have lost the just-ended primaries.
Out of 28 sitting MPs that lost, 10 of them are first-timers, and 18 have served more than one term in the House.
Speaking on “Morning Star” with Francis Abban, the pollster stated that protecting the sitting Members of Parliament in the 2020 primaries affected the party in the general election.
“I think the NPP as a party has learned a bitter lesson from 2020; in 2020, they attempted to save some of the experienced and incumbent MPs. They disqualified some of the candidates even before the elections took place, and that had a dire impact on their chances.
“If you analyse the parliamentary and presidential elections, you can see that there was anger among the supporters. The votes President Akufo-Addo got as a presidential candidate were far less than the votes of the parliamentary candidates. Which tells you that the supporters registered their displeasure by not voting for the candidate,” Mr. Ephson stated.
He continued: “So now you will see that this year, the party virtually cleared everybody; in 2020, they learned lessons from the way the supporters voted in the parliamentary.”
Source: Starr FM
