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| Ghana's newly elected president sworn in |
| 2009-01-09 |
| (Xinhua) -- John Atta Mills, who was elected Ghanian president after a very close contest, officially took over the baton Wednesday from John Kufuor, who has served two terms since 2000, the constitutional limit, according to news agencies' reports. Mills, representing the National Democratic Congress (NDC), won50.23 percent of the votes against 49.77 percent for the New Patriotic Party's candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, a leading edge of less than half percentage point. The 2008 presidential election is the third time Mills has run as the presidential candidate of the NDC in a row. He had twice run unsuccessfully for the presidency. He is believed to be well respected in Ghana because of his pedigree. He entered the political arena after a fulfilled career in the academics as a law lecturer at the University of Ghana. In 1988, Mills became the acting commissioner of Internal Revenue Service of Ghana and was named commissioner in 1996. He was sworn in as vice-president of Ghana on Jan. 7, 1997. First elected by his party as its presidential flag bearer in December 2002, Mills also led the party to the 2004 elections. |
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