Progress Party (Ghana)
The Progress Party ( PP ) was a political party in Ghana during the Second Republic.
Content profile
The Progress Party was the successor to the United Party , which in turn emerged from the Ghana Congress Party . The Ghana Congress Party was essentially made up of parts of the divided United Gold Coast Convention and thus represents an essential key point in establishing the Danquah Busia tradition. Even in today's two-party system in Ghana, the two opposing currents of the PP are still involved the Danquah Busia view and on the other side the Nkrumahrists. The Nkrumahrists are considered to be the basic socialist trend in the country.
The orientation of the bourgeois-liberal Danquah Busia tradition is therefore to be found more in the right-wing party spectrum. Essentially, this political direction in Ghana and thus also the UP pursued the multi-party system, the free market economy, popular sovereignty and the rule of law. The PP had substantial support from the Ashanti people , the largest ethnic group in Ghana.
Members and election results
Chairman of the Progress Party was Kofi Abrefa Busia , who (about 58.7 percent of the vote) in the National Assembly (the Progress Party in the founding year of the party in the elections of 29 August 1969, 105 out of 140 seats National Assembley ) made the ruling party . After Ignatius Kutu Acheampong's military coup on January 13, 1972, Ghana's current constitution was suspended and a general ban on political parties was issued. The Progress Party was also affected by this and was dissolved.
Former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor, was a Progress Party member of the Busia government and a founding member of the PP.