Uganda: Oromait Is Youngest MP in Africa

15 September 2012

At the age of 19, NRM's Proscovia Alengot Oromait sets the record as Uganda's youngest legislator ever, after she was declared the winner in the Usuk County by-elections.

The final results that were announced just before midnight on Wednesday revealed that the youthful political newcomer had garnered 11,059 votes, beating eight other candidates to the vacant seat.

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