In Ghana, former Minister of Commerce Alan Kyerematen launched a political alliance on April 17, 2024 in Accra – Alliance for Revolutionary Change (ARC) – to try to break, on December 9, 2024 during the general elections, the hegemony of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the two parties which have successively ruled the country since 1993.
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With our correspondent in Accra, Victor Cariou
At Ghanaa political alliance to put an end to the reign of the two traditional parties: this is the promise made on April 17, 2024 by the presidential candidate for December 9, 2024, Alan Kyerematen.
For this, this former minister of the current president Nana Akufo-Addo surrounded himself with around ten other parties and civil society movements, in the hope of uniting all Ghanaians disappointed with successive governments. over the last 30 years.
Thousands of yellow t-shirts gathered on Wednesday afternoon, in an auditorium in the capital, at the conference to launch this new alliance. In the crowd, many former voters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the presidential party. This is the case of Kwame Sechi, construction worker: “ The two parties that have always been in power have done nothing. In this country, we are suffering, we need a change. »
A fed-up on which Alan Kyerematen intends to capitalize. Forgotten his years with the outgoing head of state as Minister of Commerce: Alliance for Revolutionary Change (ARC) – the Alliance for revolutionary change – is the new thing above all. “ We are beginning a process that will redefine the architecture of political governance in our countrysays Alan Kyerematen. With a government of national unity, made up of different political parties, unions, members of civil society, among others “.
A diversity, which we already find among the ten personalities who form the ARC. Micheal Abu Sakara of the National Interest Movement (NIM) is one of its founding members. “ Don’t listen to the cynical killjoys, who say what we want to do is impossiblehe says. The other parties will give you what you have always had over the last 32 years: that is to say very little, and the maintenance of the status quo “.
In a poll published last month, Alan Kyerematen was credited with 12% of voting intentions.
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