{"id":2564,"date":"2026-06-10T04:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:28:29","slug":"assembly-fails-to-elect-presiding-member-as-no-candidate-secures-required-two-thirds-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Fails to Elect Presiding Member as No Candidate Secures Required Two-Thirds Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-15-at-6.53.59-AM.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-15-at-6.53.59-AM.jpeg 1020w, https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-15-at-6.53.59-AM-300x139.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-15-at-6.53.59-AM-150x69.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-15-at-6.53.59-AM-768x355.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The General Assembly convened to elect a Presiding Member; however, none of the candidates obtained the required percentage of votes as stipulated by law. Consequently, the election was inconclusive and will be conducted again at a later date to allow members to make another attempt at electing a Presiding Member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly convened to elect a Presiding Member; however, none of the candidates obtained the required percentage of votes as stipulated by law. Consequently, the election was inconclusive and will be conducted again at a later date to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-post","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsda.gov.gh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}