Progress Party (Ghana)

The Progress Party (PP ) was a political party in Ghana during the Second Republic.

Substantive Profile

The Progress Party was the successor party to the United Party, which in turn arose from the Ghana Congress Party. The Ghana Congress Party sat down substantially from parts of the cleaved United Gold Coast Convention together and is thus an essential key point for the justification of the Danquah - Busia tradition dar. Even in today's two- party system in Ghana still act the two opposing currents of PP with the Danquah - Busia - view and on the other side of the Nkrumahristen. The Nkrumahristen are considered socialist core flow in the country.

The orientation of the Danquah - Busia bourgeois-liberal tradition is therefore more likely to find the right political spectrum. In essence, this policy direction pursued in Ghana and thus the UP the multi-party system, the free market economy, popular sovereignty and the rule of law. Essentially support the PP had the people of Ashanti, the largest ethnic group in Ghana.

Members and election results

Chairman of the Progress Party was Kofi Busia Abrefa who made the Progress Party in the founding year of the party in the elections of 29 August 1969 105 of 140 seats (about 58.7 percent of the vote ) in the National Assembly ( National Assembley ) for ruling party. After the military coup by Ignatius Kutu Acheampong on 13 January 1972, the valid constitution of Ghana has been overridden and adopt a general policy of banning. The Progress Party was also affected hereof and was dissolved.

The former President of Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor was a member of the Progress Party member of the Government Busia and founding member of the PP.