Article 108: Mahama’s legal shield against Anti-LGBTQ Bill?

Later this month, Parliament is expected to transmit the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, which was passed May 29, to President Mahama for assent. Once the bill reaches his desk, the President will face a constitutional choice: assent to the bill or return it to Parliament for reconsideration. Thus far, public debate has largely focused on the substance of the legislation and its implications for morality, culture, and human rights. Yet the President's strongest constitutional grounds for returning the bill to Parliament, if he decides to, may lie not in its substance but in unresolved procedural questions arising under Articles 106 and 108 of the 1992 Constitution.