Grand Coalition (Ghana)
Grand Coalition ( GC ) is the name of a political association of three parties for the parliamentary and presidential elections in Ghana in 2004.
The GC was composed of the parties under the leadership of Edward Mahama for electoral reasons
development
Mahama had already run as a presidential candidate in the 2000 election year. Here he was able to unite 2.5 percent of the votes, with a total of 6,500,870 votes cast, i.e. approx. 162,521 votes, and came third in the presidential elections. This electoral defeat brought the opposition parties to change their strategy and led the three parties into a political alliance to improve election results, especially in the 2004 presidential election. In the 2004 elections for president, Mahama ran as a candidate of the Grand Coalition with the support of the election campaign the three parties involved. Mahama won only 1.92 percent of the vote, which corresponds to a total of 165,375 votes.
Other important figures in the Grand Coalition are the politicians Yaw Boakye Ofori-Atta and Daniel Augustus Lartey . During the elections, the GC under the doctor Mahama paid particular attention to the election promise of education policy.
See also
Web links
- Ghanaweb (English)
- Club Ghana, Grand Coalition (English)