Tag Archives: Democratic Party

  Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Executive Committee-NEC of the Democratic Party has suspended the party organizing secretary Suleiman Kidandala. The decision was reached during an extra-ordinary NEC meeting held on Friday at the party headquarters at Mengo, Balintuma road. The six hours meeting that started at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Norbert Mao the DP President General has said those accusing him of misguiding the party are on a smear campaign to tarnish his name ahead of the party’s delegates’ conference next month. Speaking to URN, Mao said despite of the ‘noise,’ they are not going …

Masaka, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  The National Organizing Secretary of the Democratic Party-DP, Suleiman Kidandala has annulled the recently conducted elections for party leaders in Masaka district.   The Democratic Party is embroiled in a series of wrangles arising out of the procedures of updating its structural leadership across the country. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …