General News of Saturday, 10 September 2016Source: kasapafmonline.comPNC to go to court over EC's ‘outrageous' filing feeAtik MohammedThe Peoples National Convention (PNC) has said it will not hesitate to go to the Supreme Court if the Electoral Commission (EC) fails to review downwards its excessively high filing fees for both Presidential and Parliamentary nominations for the 2016 elections. Presidential candidates are to pay GHC50,000 as filing fee which is 500 per cent increment of the amount charged during the last election in 2012. The Electoral Management Body has slated September 13 for both presidential and parliamentary candidates to pick nomination forms from the Electoral Commission. “The Commission has always encouraged smaller political parties to participate in elections in this country. The Commission does not think that pegging the filing fee at GHC50,000 will necessarily prevent smaller parties from contesting.

Source: GhanaWeb September 10, 2016 08:26 UTC