The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has reiterated its rejection of the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to allow minority political parties to contribute to electoral reforms at the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting.

According to Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu, a political party's representation in Parliament gives them the eligible right to vote and partake in decision making at IPAC.

Hence, the lack of legislative representation of the smaller parties' makes their ability to contribute to the review of the December polls problematic.

"The essence of participatory democracy and representative democracy is to make sure that parties that have representation are the parties that make decision. So I think what happens in IPAC must follow what happens in Parliament.

"In other words, the total number of representation in parliament should give you the bases to vote at IPAC. If we don’t do it like that then we will make nonsense of our representative democracy," he insisted.

His comment comes after the opposition party came under attack for justifying the rationale behind the party’s decision to boycott the two-day IPAC meeting earlier last week.

The NDC’s Director of Election, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah stated that it is not fair that the EC proposes reforms without considering the position of the NDC, the biggest opposition party.

However, the smaller political groups described the assertion as insulting as far as representation in governance is concerned and demanded an apology.

But, Francis-Xavier insisted that the NPP and NDC being the two dominant political parties makes it difficult to make electoral reforms without their [NDC's] input.

"Even though we have multiple political parties in Ghana, that is, the NDC and the NPP, what that means is that we cannot take any decision without the input of these two major political parties so whatever happens at IPAC would be fruitless without the participation of NDC as a political party. In my view, any political party that has no representation in parliament should not be given a voting right at IPAC."

Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament for Subin Constituency, Eugene Antwi has noted that IPAC is not empowered by law to disenfranchise parties without representation in parliament voting rights.

"IPAC is not backed by any legislation, it is just a convention adopted by all knowledgeable political parties in this country. Most IPAC is not backed by any law vis-a-vis its attendance and voting rights. If you allow any political party to walk in into a meeting, you have to let him vote that is my view."

In order to end the ongoing debate in future occurrence, he, therefore, urged EC to implement rules and regulations concerning IPAC and voting right.

"The electoral commission should quickly move in to quickly implement or adopt constitutional provision to streamline our decors and actions at IPAC. The EC must draw up rules and regulations concerning IPAC and voting right and discourage people from just registering political just for the sake of it. The EC must also ensure that every political party registered in this country abide by laws in the constitution or other political parties act" he added.