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A former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and now the life patron of the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Dr, Yao Obed Asamoah, believes that the introduction of party politics into the assembly system will not help the country, but would rather increase the abuses and risk involved in elections. �We all know already the abuses and risk involved in national election�, he added. He said, such an act would just be compounding problems for the country. The government is to submit proposals to the constitutional Review commission on the election of district Chief Executives (DCEs), an issue which has generated a lot of interest. Dr Asamoah also suggested that the election date should be changed to give more room for the transition period. He said, most Ghanaians had discovered that there was very little time for the incoming government to sit down and sort itself out. �That particular aspect of the Constitution should be amended,� he stated, apparently referring to situations where there is much difficulty when there has to be a second round, as experienced recently in the 2008 election. He said, �the Electoral Commission�s hands are tied and as such they can�t hold elections earlier than the time they have been holding elections.�