New Patriotic Party

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The New Patriotic Party is the ruling liberal party in Ghana and one of two dominant parties in Ghanaian politics. The party is centrist, but is considered to be more liberal than its leading rival, the National Democratic Congress. It supplies president John Agyekum Kufuor. At the last elections, held on 7 December 2004, the party won 129 out of 230 seats.^[1] Its candidate, John Kufuor was re-elected president with 52.75% of the vote.^[2] The party symbol is the elephant and the party colors are red, white, and blue.

Contents 1 Notable Members 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Notable Members

• Aaron Mike Oquaye

[edit] See also

• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy

Preceded by National Democratic Congress

Governments of Ghana Fourth Republic 2001–

Succeeded by '

[edit] References

^  "Ghana's 'gentle giant' re-elected", BBC. URL last accessed on March 21, 2006.

[edit] External links

• New Patriotic Party in Parliament