{"id":3770,"date":"2024-03-08T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:03:44","slug":"election-2024-presidential-filing-fees-ghc100k-ghc10k-for-parliamentary-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"Election 2024: Presidential filing fees GHC100k, GHC10k for parliamentary \u2013 EC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Electoral Commission (EC) has maintained the 2020 filing fees for both presidential and parliamentary aspirants in the 2024 general elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EC has disclosed that presidential candidates will be required to pay a filing fee of GH\u00a2100,000, while parliamentary candidates will pay a filing fee of GH\u00a210,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commission, in a joint statement with political parties\u2019 representatives at the March 7 Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting held at the EC\u2019s headquarters, noted that \u201cThe filing fees for the 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections will remain the same as in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe leaders of Political Parties made useful inputs into the 2024 Election Plan. The Commission indicated its willingness to implement a number of the suggestions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-2326e233f6dcbcce4a753577488fa3fa ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SupoGFCWLL0?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPolitical Parties at the meeting unanimously commended the Electoral Commission for the preparation of a comprehensive calendar to govern the 2024 Elections,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a related development, the Electoral Commission (EC) has announced its decision to retain the use of indelible ink for the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the EC disclosed that the Limited Voter Registration Exercise will span 21 days, running from Tuesday, May 7th to Monday, May 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Electoral Commission will maintain the indelible ink as the electoral stain for the marking of voters in the 2024 General Elections. The Limited Voter Registration Exercise will be for a twenty-one (21) day period commencing, Tuesday 7th May to Monday 27th May, 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe exercise will be conducted at the District Offices of the Electoral Commission and in difficult-to-access electoral areas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) has maintained the 2020 filing fees for both presidential and parliamentary aspirants in the 2024 general elections. The EC has disclosed that presidential candidates will be required to pay a filing fee of GH\u00a2100,000, while parliamentary candidates will pay a filing fee of GH\u00a210,000. The Commission, in a joint statement with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[977,1271],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-ec","tag-election-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}