Accra, Dec. 30, GNA - The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) on Saturday announced April 28 as the tentative date for its National Delegates Congress to elect a presidential candidate for Elections 2008. The Congress would also elect 16 other people to take up various positions within the Party, which include the National Chairman; First and Second National Chairmen; General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary among others, Mr Dan Lartey, GCPP Leader, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on Saturday.

Other positions to be contested for are: National Treasurer; National Organiser; Education Secretary; Women Organiser and Youth Leader and their Deputies.

The Party would also introduce aspiring parliamentary candidates for the 230 constituencies to the delegates.

According to the GCPP Leader four delegates each from all the 230 constituencies would attend the April Congress, which would also discuss the Party's Constitution.

Mr Lartey, who had indicated his intention to contest for the Party's flagbearership slot, said it had the solution to the problems of the country's socio-economic crisis and if given the opportunity it would perform creditably and pull the country out of its present economic woes.

He said, to do this, the Party would shift from the current over-dependence on the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to a new structure of government based on "domestication". Mr Lartey said the Party if given the mandate would ensure peace in the country and create a congenial atmosphere to dispel crisis for economic growth.

He said the Party would also take adequate steps to create jobs to eliminate unemployment completely and explained that measures would be put in place to resuscitate all abandoned factories and support State enterprises to grow.

Mr Lartey said the GCPP would forge exemplary relationship with all international groupings, including the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); African Union (AU); Commonwealth; United Nations; European Union as well as the Russian Republic.