Convention People's Party
The Convention People's Party (CPP ) is a political party in Ghana, which is currently represented with 230 seats in the Ghanaian Parliament in 2008.
Today's CPP sees himself in the tradition of the CPP was founded in 1949 Osagye Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of the Gold Coast in 1952 and first Präsidente the Republic of Ghana from 1960. Modern CPP was formed in 1998 through the merger of the National Convention Party was founded in 1992 with founded in 1993, the Convention People's Party. At first they called themselves Convention Party, the present name was adopted in 2000. The CPP defines itself as a popular party of the masses, in the fishermen, farmers, the urban population, the rich and the poor find themselves all the same. Your members and supporters are generally referred to in Ghana as Nkrumahisten.
- Chairman ( 2006): Dr. Edmond Delle
- Secretary (2006): Prof. Nii Noi Dowuona
- Candidate for the presidential elections in 2004 and 2008: George Opesika Aggudey
CPP 's colors are white, red and green. Her symbol is a rooster and the motto is "Save Ghana now " (Eng. "Save Ghana Now) ".
Ideology
Within the party, there is no aspirations regarding the formation of a national Ghanaian consciousness. Rather, lives in the CPP of Pan-African idea further, after the CPP of freedom and dignity of all Africans committed to independence and the process.
The CPP is committed to social justice and the motto "you can not have a nation did is half marginalized and half affluent " (engl.: "You can have no nation that excluded partly and partly in abundance lives "). The party believes that the state must ensure the same rights for all people to develop independently of the tribe. For the CPP, a special motivation lies in the belief in the responsibility of the state with regard to solidarity with the poor.
The CPP is still connected with the ideas and ideals of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and believes that these ideals for today's youth are still relevant. The party focuses its work on regaining power in the state to complete the unfinished work from your perspective by Kwame Nkrumah. The party has for decades without major political significance.
In foreign policy, the party supported the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. Also, the CPP showed their welcome to visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.