In the event that Alan Kyerematen, the Alliance for Revolutionary Change’s presidential candidate, wins the upcoming general elections on December 7, he has revealed that members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament will make up half of his cabinet.

He claimed that since he is the president of the entire country and required by the 1992 Constitution to pick half of his ministers from Parliament, the members of the NDC, NPP, and any other party or person who manages to get into Parliament will make up the majority of his ministerial nominations.

Mr. Kyerematen informed Bernard Avle, host of Citi FM’s Citi Breakfast Show, that his decisions will be made on the basis of individual merit rather than politics.

“I hear people asking, how are you going to get your ministers but that is very simple. I am saying that I will pick ministers from the two parties that are represented in Parliament and if there are other parties that will make it to Parliament, I also have the flexibility to pick independent candidates.

“I am picking them not because they are NPP or NDC. I will pick them on the basis of their own individual merits. It is just that they are in Parliament and I am required by the constitution to pick at least half of my ministers from Parliament.”