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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) (Ashanti (トウィ語:Ahofama Foforo Kuw)) is a liberal democratic and liberal conservative party based in Kumasi, Ashanti and one of the two dominant parties in Ghana politics. The party is center-right, its leading rival being the National Democratic Congress (NDC; formerly the Provisional National Defence Council, PNDC). The New Patriotic Party supplied former president John Agyekum Kufuor.〔 At the elections, held on 7 December 2004, the party won 129 out of 230 seats. The NPP candidate was John Kufuor, who was re-elected president with 52.75% of the vote. The New Patriotic Party symbol is the African elephant and the New Patriotic Party colors are red, white, and blue. In Ghana general election, 2008, the New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akuffo-Addo conceded to losing in the closely contested presidential election runoff amidst accusations of vote rigging, with Akuffo-Addo receiving 49.77% of the votes, versus 50.23% for John Atta Mills, the NDC candidate. In the Ghana general election, 2012, the New Patriotic Party faced a similar situation from vote results provided by the Electoral Commission of Ghana (ECG). Nana Akuffo-Addo received 47.74% of the vote, while PNDC/NDC John Mahama received 50.7% amidst accusations of electoral fraud. ==Electoral performance== The New Patriotic Party has contested in every National general elections in Ghana since the commencement of the fourth republic in 1992, with the exception of the parliamentary elections of 1992. The New Patriotic party is considered as an offshoot of the United Gold Coast Convention, which effectively evolved into the Northern People's Party in the late 1940s, the United Party in the early 1950s, the Progress Party in the late 1960s, the Popular Front Party in the 1970s and the All Popular Front in the early 1980s. After more than a decade of military rule by Flt Lft Jerry John Rawlings, the government, along with some stakeholders, drafted a constitution for which a Referendum election was organised. After the people of Ghana approved the new constitution in an election (held on the 28th of April 1992), the ban on party politics in Ghana was lifted, allowing other parties including the NPP to be officially launched. The NPP's flagbearer was Professor Adu Boahen, a Scholar and a long-time critic of the Rawlings military government. However, the NPP lost the 1992 election overwhelmingly to the Progressive alliance of the National Democratic Congress, Eagle Party and the National Convention Party whose Candidate was Jerry John Rawlings. The NPP boycotted the Parliamentary elections and hence won no seats in the new Parliament. The NPP also lost the 1996 elections again to Jerry John Rawlings' party but this time, their flagbearer was John Agyekum Kufuor. In the 2000 and 2004 elections, John Agyekum Kufuor won both elections ushering in a new government for the first time in the 4th republic of Ghana. In general election, 2008, the New Patriotic Party presidential candidate Nana Akuffo-Addo came second in the general election, 2008 in a closely contested runoff, with Akuffo-Addo receiving 49.77% of the votes, versus 50.23% for John Atta Mills, the National Democratic Congress flag bearer. The integrity of the elections was challenged, but the Electoral Commission eventually affirmed John Evans Fiifi Atta-Mills as the president-elect. In 2012, the NPP candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo lost again to the NDC candidate, John Dramani Mahama and this election was contested. After the Electoral Commission of Ghana dismissed the NPP claims, Akuffo-Addo, Mahamadu Bawumia (Running mate) and Jake Obetsebi Lamptey (Party Chairman) filed a writ at the Supreme Court of Ghana challenging the results. The case was however dismissed in August 2013, after which Akuffo-Addo conceded defeat. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Patriotic Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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