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Uganda: Parliament Votes to Scrap Presidential Age-Limit
DW, 20 December 2017
Lawmakers in Uganda have voted to scrap the presidential age-limit of 75 years. The decision could extend 73-year-old President Yoweri Museveni's rule after elections in 2021. Read more »
Ugandan Parliament Passes Presidential Age Limit Bill
A bill changing the Ugandan constitution and paving the way for the lifting of the term limits on the presidency, the return of presidential term limits and the extension of MPs terms to seven years has been passed in parliament after a third reading, and will now be sent to the President for assent.
Aruu County MP Samuel Odonga Otto jumps on to the table to grab the microphone from Bukholi Central MP Solomon Silwany during the age limit debate in Parliament on Tuesday.
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Uganda: From A to Z - How They Voted in the Second Reading of the Age Limit Bill
Independent (Kampala), 21 December 2017
How MPs voted Wednesday afternoon on the motion for the second reading of the report (317 YES, 97 NO ) on the Uganda Constitution Amendment Bill 2017, paving the way for the… Read more »
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Uganda: National Resistance Movement Gets Majority As MPs Vote On Age Bill
Monitor, 20 December 2017
The ruling National Resistance Movement on Wednesday used its numerical strength to attain the two-thirds majority as members of Parliament voted for the second reading of the… Read more »
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Uganda: How MPs Have Voted On Lifting Age Limit
Monitor, 20 December 2017
Members of Parliament are this afternoon voting on whether to lift the age limit from the constitution or maintaining it. Read more »
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Uganda: MPs Pass 7-Year Term, Next Election to Be Held in 2023
Monitor, 21 December 2017
Members of Parliament (MPs) last evening voted to increase the term of Parliament from five to seven years. Read more »
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Uganda: Army MPs Support Lifting of Age Limit, Says Gen Tumwine
Monitor, 20 December 2017
Army representatives in Parliament will vote in favour of the scrapping of the age limit from the Constitution, Gen Elly Tumwine has said. Read more »
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Uganda: How Opposition Tactics Failed to Stop Magyezi Juggernaut
Observer, 20 December 2017
It was always going to be an uphill task to stop the Raphael Magyezi bill in parliament this week given the opposition lawmakers' inferior numbers; so, in the end a handful of them… Read more »
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Uganda: Paying the Price for the Life Presidency
Observer, 20 December 2017
Our country has so far paid nearly Shs 100 billion to promoters of the removal of the presidential age limit from the Constitution to allow Gen Yoweri Museveni seek reelection in… Read more »
InFocus
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Speaker Rebecca Kadaga was on the spot as she skirted around legal hurdles to allow the Constitution Amendment Bill, which scraps the current constitutional age cap of 75 for ... Read more »
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"I said only the Parliamentary police should be securing this place. I also said I wanted all of them in uniforms [and] with their name [tags on their lapels. I also said that any ... Read more »
