Topic: 2025-Preserving Free and Fair Elections
Country: Ghana
Delegate Name: Rafay Dar
Topic:preserving fair and free elections
Country: Ghana
Delegate name: Rafay Dar
Democratic elections are supposed to be fair across the world, and this is no exception for the country of Ghana. Criminal activities across the world are having a huge impact on the politics of many developing countries, and this can lead to a lot of unwanted corruption within a government. This problem is affecting the country of Ghana too, with a lot of corruption in its own government still being present today. With misappropriated funds and bribes for federal officials being quite common within the country, the delegation of Ghana urges the United Nations to consider the help in the establishment of new, unbiased and non corrupt governments from many developing countries across the world where these problems are widespread.
The government of Ghana is a democratic republic, with the election of a president every four years. However, these elections have the potential to be corrupt and unfair, with the many problems occurring in a relatively undeveloped country such as ghana. With organized crime always being present, as well as the money to be gained from the corruption of the government (as Ghana is one of the safer and more well-off countries in west Africa) this could lead to political officials being corrupt and elected under suspicious circumstances. In 2017, the election commission of Ghana found itself within a corruption scandal and this led to the removal of the chairperson of the EC as well as 2 deputies. Despite the fact that corruption in Ghana is relatively low compared to its West African neighbors, the corruption that is currently present within the government of Ghana is still enough to impede federal duties and businesses within the nation.
As a result of all of these problems that were previously mentioned, the delegation of ghana urges the UN to create a single body funded by the governments of more developed countries an agency in which developing countries that are prone to corruption are able to maintain the fairness of elections through a thorough investigation and evaluation of various elections across the world in developing countries by this agency. After the examination of the elections are done, a recommendation from the agency would be passed on to whatever provisions for elections of that specific country (for example, in Ghana there is the Election Commission) in order for that country to take whatever action is deemed necessary so as to not impede on national sovereignty. The delegation of Ghana believes that this could be a good method in order to help conserve the fairness and freeness of elections in developing countries where this may be a problem otherwise.
Sources: https://www.u4.no/publications/overview-of-corruption-and-anti-corruption-in-ghana-2018-update/fullversion#overview-of-corruption-in-ghana
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ghana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Ghana#:~:text=Recent%20political%20developments,-Nana%20Akufo%2DAddo&text=Mills%20died%20of%20natural%20causes,Ghana%20was%20a%20stable%20democracy.
