Game over for 111 NDC, NPP lawmakers
At least, 111 legislators will not return to Parliament after the midnight of January 6, 2020.
They are among the casualties of the primaries and the country’s December 7 elections in which more than 50 MPs failed to make a comeback.
Others tumbled in their primaries as a wave of fresh faces and a few returnees removed the seats under them.
A total of 111 members of the seventh Parliament lost their seats in the just ended December 7 polls.
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This means all 111 MPs will not join the Eighth Parliament from January 7, 2021.
Out of the 275 seats in the Seventh Parliament, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had 169, while the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had 106, representing the minority.
But the parliamentary election last Monday, saw 33 incumbent NPP Members of Parliament (MPs) lose their seats. In contrast, 41 had lost their constituency primaries earlier in the year, with four going on voluntary retirement.
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For the NPP, 78 members will not make it to the Eighth Parliament while for the NDC, 18 MPs lost their re-election bid in Monday’s election, eight had lost their primaries in 2017, with seven voluntarily retiring.
This means that 33 NDC MPs will not return to the House.