Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Sam George has been re-elected for the third term as the Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency in party primaries held Saturday.
The strong anti-LGBTQ+ campaigner polled 1036 votes to beat his fierce contender, Michael Kwettey Nettey, who garnered 626 votes in one of the opposition parties’ presidential and parliamentary primaries held across the country.
Hon. Sam George has been in Parliament since 2016 and is one of seven MPs who are championing the passage of the anti-gay bill in Ghana.
The Ningo-Prampram Constituency is a stronghold of the NDC, and winning the primaries gives the elected candidate the likeliest chance of victory to be in Parliament for another term.
Before the election, Hon. George received massive support from the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, an umbrella body for a number of organizations that are backing the passage of the bill.
The seven NDC MPs led by Sam George are spearheading the passage of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and the Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 which seeks to criminalize LGBTQ activities by establishing proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian family values, outlawing LGBT-related activities, and protecting and supporting children.
He now has the guarantee to fight on to see the Bill passed, as he prepares for the main parliamentary contest next year.
The Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee has already laid the report on the Anti-LGBT bill before the house and is expected to be debated and approved when the house returns from recess.
Ghana is set to hold presidential and legislative elections in December 2024, with the opposition NDC hoping to unseat the governing NPP, which has been in power since 2016.
