Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party has postponed the party grass root elections which were due to take place this week. This follows the bickering between party branches and sub-branches over anomalies involved in the entire process. The party last week unveiled its political road-map for the 2021 …
Read More »Masaka DP leaders reject party roadmap
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of the Democratic Party-DP leaders in Masaka district have rejected the party’s road map. On Monday, the DP National Vice President, Fred Mukasa Mbidde and Masaka District DP Chairperson announced the party road map, which seeks to reorganise the party structures. According to Mbidde, the …
Read More »Confusion mars DP NEC meeting
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party National Executive Committee- NEC was on Thursday marred by confusion. The party organized the meeting at their new home in Mengo on Balintuma road to discuss among others the party roadmap ahead of the 2021 elections. Earlier the DP Secretary-General Gerald …
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 …
Read More »Bill Clinton makes case for history-making Hillary
Philadelphia, United States | AFP | Hillary Clinton made history Tuesday by becoming the first woman to win a major US political party’s White House nomination, earning the backing of convention Democrats and prime-time praise from a presidential superstar: her husband Bill. The 68-year-old former first lady, senator and secretary …
Read More »Scandal rocks Democratic Party truce on eve of convention
Philadelphia, United States | AFP | US Democrats scrambled Sunday to contain damaging revelations of an insider effort to hobble Bernie Sanders’s White House campaign that threatened an uneasy truce on the eve of the party’s convention. Democrats converge Monday on Philadelphia, the “City of Brotherly Love”, to elevate Hillary …
Read More »60 years of the Democratic Party
By Kaggwa- Kavuma Can the party, which started in Buganda and is now under Nobert Mao from Acholiland, garner nationwide support? The Democratic Party (DP), Uganda’s oldest political Party, celebrated 60 years of its existence on March 1 at Gaba Beach just outside Kampala on the edge of Lake Victoria. …
Read More »DP wants First lady convicted
By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Democratic Party wants the First Lady and minister for Karamoja Janet Museveni to be convicted and sentenced the same way they did with Mike Mukula. The Soroti Municipality MP and former Minister of State of Health in Charge of General Duties was charged and sentenced to …
Read More »DP disappointed with Obama
By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Democratic Party has expressed disappointment with the newly sworn in United States president Barack Obama. According to Jude Mbabali the party PRO, they expected Obama who won his second term to the White House to uproot all what they called dictators in Africa. “DP had a …
Read More »DP mourns James Mulwana
By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Democratic Party has mourned the fallen industrialist and businessman James Mulwana and described him as champion of the private enterprise. Democratic Party President Norbert said that he learnt with deep sorrow of the death of James Mulwana. “The death of James Mulwana has deprived Uganda of …
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