Daily Monitor
Thursday January 14 2021
The wall of Uganda s Electoral Commission in Kampala, Uganda on January 4, 2021 describes how to mark a ballot paper.
Summary
The first kind of general election to be held in Uganda was organised by the British Colonialists in 1961.
In April 1962, the second election organised under the parliamentary system was held.
UPC won 37 of the 82 seats in Parliament, followed by DP with exclusion of Buganda with 24 seats.
The 1996 General Election was the first under the new Constitution.
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Ugandans are going to the polls today to vote for the President and Members of Parliament who will serve the country until May 2026.
Daily Monitor
Friday January 08 2021
At his 70
th Birthday organized by his family at the family home in Kikonda Village, Bamunanika Sub County on July 5,2015, Kisamba told his guests and family that he was satisfied that at the age of 70, he had accomplished his mission in politics but loved to see Ugandans enjoy the true Democratic Principals.
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News about the death of one of the Greater Luweero celebrated veteran politicians and academician, Dr Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa on Thursday afternoon at Mulago National Referral Hospital left many shocked.
Many residents said their last interaction with was during the Christmas festivities at his home in Kikonda village, Bamunanika Sub County in Luweero District.
Daily Monitor
Friday January 01 2021
Presidential candidates Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine of National Unity Platform (NUP) and Patrick Oboi Amuriat of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). PHOTO | NMG
Summary
President Museveni’s entrenched National Resistance Movement party faces Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) and the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) the biggest opposition party in the country which is fronting Patrick Oboi Amuriat.
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Uganda goes to the polls on January 14 and while 10 candidates seek to unseat President Yoweri Museveni from a position he has held for the past 34 years analysts view the election as a three-horse race.
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Daily Monitor
Thursday December 17 2020
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President Museveni who is campaigning in Rwenzori sub region has blamed the Constituency Assembly delegates of 1995 for not including the President in the law making process and just limiting it to Parliament.
Mr Museveni reasoned that because of this, Parliament has failed to handle his views well thereby failing some projects he would want as priority.
“In the writing of the 1995 Constitution, they did not put the President in matters of making the law. They said that Parliament shall legislate and President’s role is to assent to these laws and if he doesn’t twice, it automatically becomes law,” he said on Wednesday at Boma grounds in Fort Portal City where he met leaders and youths from the seven districts of Tooro sub-region.