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The Electoral Commission (EC) has disqualified 24 parliamentary aspirants in the Ashanti Region from contesting this year's election.

Reports gathered by our Ashanti Regional correspondent, Isaac Owusu indicate that out of the 240 aspirants who filed their nomination on Friday, only 216 were cleared to represent their respective political parties as parliamentary candidates in the elections.

The 24 were disqualified based on the fact that they were not able to pay their filing fee (GHC 10, 000).

According to the Ashanti Regional Director of the EC, Mr Mr Serebuor Quaicoo, “when they submitted the nomination forms, 240 submitted but we were waiting for the issue about the deposits to be completed, but 24 of them did not come forward to continue with their deposits. So at the end of the day, the 24 people cannot be considered as duly nominated because they did not complete their nomination process,”

According to him, most of he disqualified applicants are independent candidates and a few from the political parties. Even though the list of disqualified aspirants is not yet out, candidates from the New Patriotic Party (NPP), National Democratic Congress (NDC), Convention People's Party (CPP) and the Progressive People's Party (PPP) have qualified to contest in the December 7 elections.