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CONTENTS Preface 1. An Evening Encounter with President Mills 1 2. Presidential Debate, Accra 30 3. Presidential Debate, Tamale 44 Index of Issues 60 III
PREFACE The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Ghana, seeks to promote the consolidation of democracy and good governance in Ghana and West Africa. The IEA works at this through national and sub-regional programmes of advocacy for democracy in economic and political governance. Over twenty years, The IEA has initiated far-reaching processes of multi party democracy in Ghana, and carried out events of national cohesion and political accommodation and accountability. Since the year 2000, The IEA has organised Presidential Election Debates ahead of each of the nation’s Presidential Elections. In each election year, these debates have provided Presidential candidates a platform on which to debate the policies and programmes that they believe will best serve the national interest. The Presidential Election Debates are gradually instilling an issues-driven approach to Presidential campaigns. The debates offer the electorate information on the policy direction of each Presidential candidate’s manifesto, with which to make informed choices. The IEA has created yet another platform to enhance the development of an issues-driven approach to national elections and the establishment of accountable leadership in Ghana. This is the Evening Encounter Series, which was initiated in the year 2008. The Evening Encounters concept differs from that of the Presidential Debates, in that while the focus of the Debates is the interaction between Presidential candidates, the focus of the Encounters is the interaction between candidates and the electorate. These Encounters offered the four Presidential candidates, whose political parties had representation in Parliament, an evening each of interaction with a cross section of interest groups. By providing a public forum in which each of the candidates can present their policies and be challenged by both the other candidates and members of the public, both the Evening Enounter series and the Debates serve to enhance the level of accountability demanded from Ghana’s potential IV
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Question: According to the 2000 Pop
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Question: You have each touched on
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There is the perception that we are
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