Police had to fire bullets and tear gas among the voters during LC elections yesterday in order to claim down the situation. Electoral commission released a statement postponing of elections in some villages to be carried today. Voting in some villages was disrupted as people’s names went missing on the voters register yet they claim […]
The MPs opposed to the age limit amendment sitting on the legal and parliamentary Affairs committee have accused parliament for denying them funds to carry out consultations on the presidential age limit bill. A report read by the Kumi district MP Monica Amoding stated that failure for parliament to give the committee funds to get […]
The Member of Parliament for Makindye West, Allan Sewanyana, has suggested that a review of the Local Government (Amendment) Act 2014 whose provisions for lining up behind candidates while voting village council leaders be changed to secret ballot. He says that the law is impractical since many villages have a sizeable number of voters and that […]
The Democratic Party has demanded that government extends the dates of elections to village councils to allow fresh registration of voters at village level. The Democratic Party officials led by the party deputy secretary, Gerald Siranda, and the party vice president in charge of Buganda, Betty Nambooze, while appearing before the public service and local […]
THE electoral commission has put on halt its earlier plans of organizing local council one and two elections over lack funds. While appearing before parliamentary committee on legal affairs, the chairman of the commission, Badru Kiggundu the commission came to the decision after failing to secure the required money to run the exercise. Kiggundu says […]
The High Court in Soroti district has nullified the election of yet another National Resistance Movement (NRM) member, Hon. Hellen Adoa as Woman Member of Parliament for Serere district. Adoa beat Forum for Democratic Change’s Alice Alaso in the Febraury 18 elections to clinch the seat. According the results by the Electoral Commission, Adoa polled […]
The electoral commission has issued a warning against fraudsters whom they say use the name of the body to mislead the unsuspecting members of the public especially on the on-going nullification of results for Members of Parliament by Courts. In a press release to journalists, the acting EC Chairperson, Dr. Joseph Biribonwa said they had […]
In a series of losses to electoral petitions coined around inadequate academic papers, the High Court sitting in Jinja has nullified the election of National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s Hajat Rehema Watongola as a member of parliament for Kamuli municipality. Kamuli Municipality was created as part of the 12 municipalities approved by parliament and became effective […]
Electoral Commission has distanced itself from any accusations that it’s responsible for any person that is disqualified by court on ground of fake academic papers saying it’s not mandated to verify by law. This came after Electoral Commission was accused of nominating candidates who do not meet the required qualifications to contest for any elective office […]
The member of parliament representing Lwemiyaga county Theodore Ssekikubo has attacked the electoral commission for locking out his bid for deputy speakership in the 10th parliament. According to the NRM road map for speakership primaries only gazzeted NRM members are eligible to vie or vote in these primaries which puts Ssekikubo in a tricky position to […]