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NRM, DP losers stand no chance as NUP vets aspirants

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform officials in-charge of vetting candidates within Mukono municipality have cautioned aspirants who lost primaries in other political parties against competing for positions in NUP. Several candidates who lost primaries in the National Resistance Movement- NRM and those who fell out with …

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Minister Rukutana takes lead in Rushenyi county vote recount

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister of Labor Mwesigwa Rukutana is leading the Rushenyi County NRM party primary elections in a recount held today. The recount presided over by the chairperson of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party-Electoral Commission Dr Tanga Odoi follows a petition filed by Rukutana challenging …

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NRM officials worried about members opting to run as independents

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The increasing number of National Resistance Movement-NRM party members opting to run as independents in Mukono district in the next general election is giving the party officials headache. The officials are worried that the decision by the party members to go independent will …

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Punish election thieves

Experts predict violent 2021 election if offenders go free Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | The 2021 general elections will see widespread violence, organised gangs, and bribery. That is according to the Citizens’ Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda (CCEDU), a civil society coalition of over 800 like-minded organisations …

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Trouble for Rukutana

Will `God’ forgive him again? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mwesigwa Rukutana, the Minister of State Minister for Labour who was arrested and remanded to prison on Sept.05 in relation to violence in the just concluded NRM parliamentary primary elections, is no stranger to the top and down of …

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NRM tells disgruntled polling officials to be considerate

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement- NRM has asked it’s polling officials to be considerate and grateful that they have a job. The statement followed complaints from a cross-section of polling officials who are managing party primaries about the low pay, for the task. Many raised …

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NRM bicycles stir controversy in Kalungu district

Kalungu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The distribution of bicycles to National Resistance Movement-NRM village chairpersons has stirred controversy in Kalungu district among party members. Late last month, the NRM secretariat procured a total of 68,733 bicycles that are being distributed to party village chairpersons across the country to support them …

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