General News of Tuesday, 13 September 2016Source: citifmonline.comAppeal to EC to hold IPAC meeting over filing fees – CODEOCharlotte Osei, Electoral CommissionerThe Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), has urged political parties calling for a reduction in the filing fees for this year’s election, to appeal to the Electoral Commission to call for an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting to discuss the issue. Last week, the EC increased by about 500 percent, the filing fees for presidential aspirants which is now pegged at GHc50,000. It also pegged filing fees for parliamentary aspirants at GHc10,000. Albert Arhin also explained that threatening the Electoral Commission is unnecessary. “…they [EC] want to make sure that anybody who is trying to enter into this competition is a little bit serious.

Source: GhanaWeb September 13, 2016 13:30 UTC