People wait to vote on the day of the presidential and parliamentary election at a polling station in Jamestown, Accra, Ghana, December 7, 2024.on Saturday amid hopes for an economic revival after the worst financial crisis in a generation, which led to a major debt default in the West African nation.
Opinion polls have tipped Mahama, who served as president from 2012 to 2016, for a potential comeback.Some provisional legislative results were expected by Saturday night and Sunday, while the presidential outcome is expected by Tuesday, although trends often allow an early prediction. Joyce Adjadji, a 54-year-old teacher, also said she wanted change as she voted in Afienya, a greater Accra suburb.Mahama, 66, has framed Bawumia as representing a continuation of policies that led to Ghana’s economic woes, and has promised to renegotiate terms of a $3 billion IMF bailout secured last year to restructure the country’s debts. The crisis peaked in 2022 when Ghana turned to the IMF.
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