Ghana Pre-Election Party Campaign Platform or Leading Speaker Feature a Woman

Ghana Pre-Election Party Campaign Platform or Leading Speaker Feature a Woman

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Year: 
2016
Level of government: 
National

During the pre-election period, 75 percent of CODEO observations, recorded by the 138 LTO observers during bi-weekly observation periods, noted that political parties did not feature women in their campaign platform or as a leading speaker during that bi-weekly period. At the high end, the NPP party was observed including a woman in their platform or as a leading speaker in 210 observations, 39 for the NDC party, and 2 for the CPP party. These observations show that women were significantly less visible than men in the election campaigns. 

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