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Julius Debrah (born 24 April 1966) is a Ghanaian politician and former chief of staff to the former President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress. In February 2015, he was appointed chief of staff after the former, Prosper Douglas Bani was removed from office and assigned to Ambassador Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary. Debrah previously held the positions of Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Regional Minister for Eastern Region.

Education

Debrah studied at Mpraeso Secondary School and then moved to Achimota Secondary School for A-Levels from 1987 to 1989. Following this, he gained admission to the University of Ghana where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology and Sociology.

Politics

As Parliamentary Candidate

In The 2000 Ghana Elections, he stood as a parliamentary candidate in the Suhum constituency and lost to Ransford Agyapong the New Patriotic Party candidate by gaining 12,368 of the votes cast representing 41.20% whilst the winner got 16,494 votes representing 54.90%. In 2004 he once again stood for the parliamentary seat in the Suhum Constituency and lost to the New Patriotic Party’s Frederick Opare-Ansah who got 21,720 votes representing 55.20% against his 17,125 votes representing 43.50%.

In 2012 when his party was in power he once again stood as the parliamentary candidate for the Suhum seat and lost by 388 votes the closest he had come in the three times he had stood for the parliamentary seat. He lost to the incumbent his rival from the 2004 Elections Frederick Opare-Ansah, who got 24,046 votes representing 49.28% whilst he got 23,658 representing 48.49%.

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