No Speaker is impartial – Prof Gyampo urges MPs to build consensus

Political Scientist Professor Ransford Gyampo has argued that Speakers of Parliament are not impartial since they are partisan, advising that Members of Parliament need to build consensus or continue to ‘fight’ in Parliament.

His comments come at a time Parliament has been plunged into chaos over the imposition of the electronic transactions levy( E-Levy) on the citizenry.

While the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs are hell-bent on ensuring that the tax is imposed, MPs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are opposed to it.

At parliamentary sitting to pass a bill imposing the tax, Parliament plunged into chaos with MPs trading blows and hurling insults at one another over whether or not the First Deputy Speaker Joe Osei-Owusu had the right to vote whole presiding as Speaker.

For Prof Gyampo, building consensus in Parliament is a sure way to avoid the chaos been witnessed given that the Parliament is a hung one, where the NDC and NPP both have 137 MPs apiece with one independent candidate who has decided to do business with the NPP MPs.

“It is hypocrisy and ignorance for a partisan MP to expect a partisan Speaker to be impartial. No Speaker in any democracy is neutral. You either eschew Intransigence and build Consensus or keep fighting. It’s a Hung Parliament!” Prof Gyampo wrote.

Meanwhile Parliament has been criticized for the chaos that happened yesterday.

Source: MyNewsGh.com/ 2021

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