{"id":15389,"date":"2026-02-03T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=15389"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:09:28","slug":"allow-us-to-speak-minority-appeals-to-majority-as-parliament-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=15389","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAllow us to speak\u201d \u2013 Minority appeals to Majority as Parliament resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo Markin has appealed to the Majority in Parliament to provide more opportunity for the minority to engage in legislative advocacy as Parliament resumes.<\/p>\n<p>The plea was made during a leadership media briefing ahead of Parliament\u2019s resumption on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, highlighting the need for greater inclusivity in parliamentary processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hold the view that in this meeting, the majority should be more accommodating; they must hear us. They must allow the minority to do more advocacy. We expect the Speaker to admit more and more of our motions,\u201d Afenyo Markin said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that frustrations characterised much of last year\u2019s parliamentary session, with motions frequently being declined, limiting the minority\u2019s ability to contribute meaningfully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that the essence of parliamentary politics is to give every party stakeholder the opportunity. We look forward to much more engagement on the floor,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo Markin has appealed to the Majority in Parliament to provide more opportunity for the minority to engage in legislative advocacy as Parliament resumes. The plea was made during a leadership media briefing ahead of Parliament\u2019s resumption on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, highlighting the need for greater inclusivity in parliamentary processes. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":15390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[1047,2179,2061,936],"class_list":["post-15389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-alexander-afenyo-markin","tag-majority","tag-minority-2","tag-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15391,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions\/15391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}