Kigezi , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several parliamentary candidates for the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party in Kigezi Sub region are finding difficulties to raise their nomination fees. According to the Electoral Commission guidelines, the nomination fee for parliamentary aspirants is Shillings 3 million, district and city chairperson …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Delegates of the Alliance for National Transformation – ANT party in Kasese district have confirmed Major-General Mugisha Muntu as their party presidential candidate for the 2021 general elections. The delegates confirmed Muntu at a low key event held at the multi-purpose district hall in Rukoki …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation-ANT party will focus on building strong state institutions and credible alternative forces to check those in power. The ANT President Gen. Mugisha Muntu says that the NRM government has suffocated the country’s institutions that are supposed to hold them …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 140 politicians have applied for a change in names to correspond with their academic papers ahead of the 2021 elections. Some of those rushing to realign their names are Kyagulanyi Robert Ssentamu, the president of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Gen Mugisha Muntu, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation- ANT has questioned the rationale used by Electoral Commission to delay the nomination of presidential candidates saying this will deny them sufficient time to campaign across the country. According to the EC roadmap, the nomination of presidential candidates will take …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Delegates of the Alliance for National Transformation – ANT in the Eastern part of the country have endorsed Major-General Gregory Mugisha Muntu as the party’s flag bearer for presidency in the 2021 general elections. Muntu was handed the party’s flag and constitution at Forester Gardens …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Political leaders in Uganda have expressed their concerns about unequal access to the media and police brutality as the country prepares for 2021 general elections. The politicians demand the leadership of the Uganda’s Electoral Commission to engage in dialogue on how to run political campaigns. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Agago North Member of Parliament Prof. Morris Ogenga-Latigo says he is quitting the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to contest for the Parliamentary seat as an independent candidate. Prof. Latigo, also the former Leader of Opposition in Parliament, told URN in an interview that …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) coordinator retired General Mugisha Muntu on Friday picked presidential nomination papers from the Electoral Commission. Though Muntu was not physically present at the Electoral Commission, his nomination forms were picked by Dan Mugarura Bakaki, the National Electoral Affairs …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Kasese Woman MP Winnie Kiiza has officially denounced the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC and joined the Alliance for National Transformation. Kiiza was part of the group that abandoned FDC after a fall out with Maj Gen Gregory Mugisha Muntu. Although she was part …
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