The Electoral Commission on Tuesday issued fresh guidelines for the process of the nomination of candidates for the Parliamentary elections that starts today.
Candidates heading for nominations at the different designated centers across the country have been urged not to waste the commission time but stick to the set guidelines provided by the Electoral Commission.
The two day exercise ends tomorrow Thursday December 3. Those to be nominated include candidates for directly elected MP representing Constituency, District Woman MP and MP of Persons with Disability.
Addressing a press conference, the EC chairman Eng. Badru Kiggundu said the nomination exercise will take place at the respective Commission offices in the districts across the country between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Kiggundu said that the nomination of MP’s representing PWDs will be held at the electoral Commission head office.
Kiggundu said the commission would not hold elections for representatives of the Special interest groups like Workers, Youth and the Uganda People’s Defence Forces, “until Parliament of Uganda addresses the concerns raised by the Constitutional Court,”
On Tuesday, 29th September 2015, the Constitutional Court in a ruling blocked the ongoing electoral process for the election of representatives of the UPDF, youth and workers to the 10th Parliament. The court stated that the law government the elections were in conflict will the Constitution. Parliament has since amended the laws.
Kiggundu warned candidates against crowding nomination centers with their supporters insisting that, “a candidate who uses a convoy for purposes of nomination shall have a maximum of 2 vehicles bearing police stickers and each shall carry a maximum of 10 people.”
