Mills to win in 2012 - Economist

Mills to win the 2012 elections - Economist Intelligence Unit: The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) May , 2010 overview on Ghana has hinted that there is the likelihood of President John Atta Mills winning the 2012 presidential elections for a second and final four-year term. The analysis states in part that whoever wins the New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2010 flagbearer nomination will have a very difficult task of beating President Mills, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate for 2012. The EIU states that it “will not be an easy task. The government’s finances were in state of disarray when the NPP left power and the NDC has so far done a fairly satisfactory job of narrowing the large fiscal deficit that the NPP left behind. "In addition, the usual spat of political, recriminations by the party in power has cast a dim light over many in the NPP since the NDC came to power. "This is very much in line with what the NPP did when it came to power in 2000 and makes it difficult for newly-removed parties to regain power after just one election cycle. "It is more likely that only after two terms in power will there be a possibility that the public will begin to look for alternatives. However, much of how easy or difficult it will be to dislodge the NDC depends on the NDC.”