But how accurate is that poll? Kampala, Uganda | HABATI MUBATSI | As expected ahead of the 2021 general elections, political polling is back. Research World International (RWI), which is Uganda’s main polling firm, has released its latest survey of the population on a range of issues economic and social …
Read More »Police deploys at Pope Paul Hotel ahead of People Power consultative meeting
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is heavy police deployment at Pope Paul Memorial Hotel in Ndeeba where the People Power pressure group is expected to hold its consultative meeting. While hotel security personnel are around and working, police officers are also seen checking people and vehicles accessing the …
Read More »Gen. Muntu: I don’t expect free and fair polls
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | General Mugisha Muntu, the National Coordinator of the Alliance for National Transformation-ANT party, says he isn’t any illusion that the 2021 general elections will be free and fair. According to Muntu, there are many contested issues like electoral reforms that were proposed by the Supreme …
Read More »EC seeks UGX 100b for biometric voter verification machines
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission has said that the commission requires 100 billion shillings to procure bio-metric system machines for the 2021 presidential and parliamentary elections. The 2021 general elections will be the second time Uganda uses the Biometric …
Read More »DP unveils 2021 electoral road map
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party has unveiled its political road-map for the 2021 general elections. The road-map outlines the programme for the electoral process. The roadmap was last week approved by the National Executive Committee. While releasing the road map on Tuesday, the DP Publicity Secretary Suleiman …
Read More »Opposition leaders in eastern Uganda petition EU ambassadors on general elections
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of opposition leaders in Eastern Uganda have petitioned the European Union ambassadors on the upcoming 2021 general elections. Nine European Union Ambassadors led by the EU envoy Atillio Pacifici have since Monday been in Mbale town for their end of year retreat. The …
Read More »National IDs not essential for 2021 polls- Electoral Commission
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | All voters must get their details updated in the National Voters Register as a guarantee that they participate in the 2021 general elections. The call was made this morning by the Electoral Commission Chairman Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi, saying that owning a National Identity …
Read More »MPs in support of IPU human rights probe committee
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Arua Municipality Member of Parliament Kassiano Wadri has appealed to the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) to expeditiously investigate gross human rights violations in Uganda before the 2021 general elections take place. The Inter-Parliamentary Union Standing Committee on Human Rights for parliamentarians sponsored a resolution …
Read More »Parliamentary aspirants will require UGX 1 Billion to contest in 2021-Report
Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans seeking to win Parliamentary seats in the 2021 general elections will have to spend between 500 million to 1 billion Shillings, a new report has estimated. Published on Tuesday in Kampala by the Alliance for Finance Monitoring (ACFIM), an NGO that focuses on addressing commercialization …
Read More »DP wants heavy punishment for media houses denying opposition access to state media
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party (DP) has proposed an increment of a penalty to a media house that denies equal access to all candidates in the 2021 general elections. According to the party’s proposals submitted to the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee by its Secretary-General …
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