Ghana

February 2007 | Political Outlook

At the start of the year the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), embarked on a boycott of parliament in a protest against the jailing of one of its members for fraud. The NDC viewed the sentence of legislator and former government minister Dan Abodakpi as an attempt by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to use the courts 'to diminish the opposition'. While this illustrates the underlying suspicion between the NDC and the NPP, we expect the heightened acrimony to peter out, and the effects on the running of parliament to be

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