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The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has observed that the principles of the centre-right political parties that promote democracy, free market economy and freedom, underpinned the system that would unleash the productive capabilities of the people and enhance their welfare. He noted that those values historically demonstrated how to liberate the people from the shackles of poverty and deprivation and brought prosperity to the people and called for the inclusion of the people in all development processes. He has, therefore, urged members of the Democrat Union of Africa (DUA) and the International Democrat Union (IDU), which believed in the centre-right ideologies to support each other to succeed in their respective countries for the betterment of their people. Vice President Bawumia made the call when the executive and members of the Democrat Union of Africa, International Democrat Union and the leadership of the New Patriotic Party, paid a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House, in Accra, on Monday. Vice President Bamumia said it was useful for members of the Organisations to come together to share ideas and ensure the principles of democracy were embedded in their dealings for inclusive development. It was against this backdrop, he said, that the ruling NPP Administration, rooted in the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), with the motto: “Development in Freedom”, had been implementing policies and programmes to enhance the well-being of the people. The Vice President noted that, upon assumption of office in 2017, the Nana Akufo-Addo-led government had been implementing digitisation policies, including the issuance of the national identification cards to uniquely identify everybody, mobile money payment interoperability to ensure financial inclusion and other human-centred policies, aimed at enhancing inclusiveness of the people in the development processes. “We believe that, that is key and critical for prosperity of the nation,” Dr Bawumia pointed out.