Allow incumbent NPP MPs to run unopposed in the 2024 elections – Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader,

Has recommended that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) allow incumbent Members of Parliament (MPs) to run unopposed in the 2023 primaries.

He feels that the selection process does not have to be conducted through an election, which he claims "has frequently turned nasty."

Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu slammed attempts by certain NPP members to oust incumbent MPs, particularly first-term legislators.

According to the Majority Leader, such undesirable activities divert MPs' attention and negatively affect their attendance in Parliament, which has an impact on the conduct of government business.

"To avoid any derailment in the party's onward march, the National Party should own the process of picking candidates." In this regard, I recommend to the party that constituencies be urged to adopt incumbent MPs to the greatest extent feasible for the purposes of the upcoming general elections, as any free-for-all election that is not led or guarded will destabilize our great party," he stated.

These remarks were made by the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs at the NPP National Delegates Conference in the Ashanti Region.

The NPP is set to debate roughly 38 proposed revisions to its constitution, as well as a number of other topics aimed at helping the party win the presidential election in 2024 and stop an eight-year curse.

Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu stated that the Party's incapacity to defend exceptionally experienced and astute MPs is harmful to the progress and development of the country Of the NPP.

In the 2020 General Elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost 28 seats to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Ministers, ministers of state, and deputy ministers account for twenty-one of them.

That does not include the 41 who were defeated in the NPP primaries prior of the parliamentary elections.

Dr Anthony Akoto Osei of Tafo Pankrono, Kwabena Appiah Pinkrah of Akrofuom, Dr Ziblim Iddi of Gushegu, and Shirley Ayorkor Botchway of Anyaa Sowutuom are among the four MPs who have retired.

The NPP has lost 92 of its 137 seats in the current Parliament.

He also stated that the Parliamentary Party is on the verge of collapse, and that if the 2023 Parliamentary Primaries are not managed properly, the party will be doomed.

Despite the fact that Article 55 of the 1992 constitution mandates that political parties' internal structures adhere to democratic norms, he claims that the NPP is free to choose its members of the National Executive Committee.

Internal NPP elections, according to the Suame MP, have bred factionalism and torn the party apart over the years.

He advised the party to look into alternative methods used by parties in more established democracies, such as consensus, acclamation, persuasion, and even rotations.