The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has warned that the Supreme Court's decision striking down the delegate system for internal party elections will significantly increase the cost of organising party primaries, placing a heavy financial burden on political parties. "In the face of it, this is going to be a huge burden on political parties," he said. He noted that the cost of conducting nationwide internal elections would rise considerably, particularly for parties with large memberships spread across the country. The NPP official's comments come after National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah revealed that the NDC spent about GH¢40 million on its 2014 internal elections and proposed that the state should finance internal political party elections. "I think that the issue of state funding of political parties has been on the burner for a very long time," he said, recalling discussions among political parties represented in Parliament and the Institute of Economic Affairs on proposals for state financing.