{"id":342029,"date":"2025-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=342029"},"modified":"2025-01-07T00:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:07:18","slug":"parliament-dissolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/politics\/parliament-dissolved\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s 8th Parliament officially dissolved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ghana\u2019s 8th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.gh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parliament<\/a> of the Fourth Republic has been officially dissolved, marking the end of its legislative term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dissolution ceremony, presided over by Speaker Alban Bagbin, concluded a four-year period characterized by significant debates and a rare balance of power between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-gbc-ghana-online wp-block-embed-gbc-ghana-online\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MQnQah0RLB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/politics\/mps-inauguration\/2025\/\">MPs take seats ahead of 9th Parliament inauguration<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;MPs take seats ahead of 9th Parliament inauguration&#8221; &#8212; GBC Ghana Online\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/politics\/mps-inauguration\/2025\/embed\/#?secret=PErBzp79yf#?secret=MQnQah0RLB\" data-secret=\"MQnQah0RLB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This paves the way for the inauguration of the 9th Parliament, where newly elected Members of Parliament will be sworn in, and a new Speaker will be elected to lead the House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/news\/\">More stories here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic has been officially dissolved, marking the end of its legislative term. The dissolution ceremony, presided over by Speaker Alban Bagbin, concluded a four-year period characterized by significant debates and a rare balance of power between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). This paves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":302802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,25,2773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-news","category-trending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PARLIAMENT-OF-GHANA-FULL-jpg.webp?fit=1600%2C1066&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342030,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342029\/revisions\/342030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}