{"id":9462,"date":"2025-01-09T07:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T07:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2025-01-09T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T07:27:40","slug":"we-are-the-minority-not-micro-minority-afenyo-markin-tells-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9462","title":{"rendered":"We are the Minority, not Micro-Minority! \u2013 Afenyo-Markin tells Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Parliamentary tensions rose on January 8 when Speaker Alban Bagbin referred to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs as a \u201cmicro-minority\u201d during a debate. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-single-ad ad_single_index alignfull\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrap ad-script-wrap\">\n<div class=\"ad-script non-adsense edge-padding\">\n<div id=\"vocalize-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The remark drew immediate backlash from Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, who categorically rejected the term, arguing that it was demeaning to the NPP caucus.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Minority Caucus protests the description given to us by the Speaker,<\/em>\u201d Afenyo-Markin declared, urging the Speaker to avoid such characterisations that undermine their dignity.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker, however, countered that Afenyo-Markin himself had previously used the phrase in a similar context.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the Effutu MP maintained his stance, insisting that such language was inappropriate for parliamentary proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP caucus, despite their minority status, continues to assert their presence and challenge narratives that they perceive as diminishing their influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary tensions rose on January 8 when Speaker Alban Bagbin referred to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs as a \u201cmicro-minority\u201d during a debate. The remark drew immediate backlash from Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, who categorically rejected the term, arguing that it was demeaning to the NPP caucus. The Minority Caucus protests the description given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[1370,84,82],"class_list":["post-9462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-afenyo-markins","tag-alban-sumana-bagbin","tag-speaker-of-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462","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=9462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}