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Opposition parties ask Parliament to trash Bill to elect LoP

The Bill mainly wants Opposition leaning MPs to elect the Leader of Opposition (LoP).

Opposition political parties have asked Parliament to trash the Administration of Parliament (Amendment) Bill, 2024 that chiefly seeks to have the Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP) elected.

The Bill crafted by the Democratic Party’s Richard Lumu (Mityana South) also seeks to have the shadow cabinet members vetted before clearance and to also create provisions under which the LoP can be removed from office.

In separate submissions made to Parliament’s Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, three Opposition parties unanimously rejected the Bill in its entirety, reasoning that the said legislation, if passed in its current form, would frustrate the growth of democracy in Uganda.

The Alliance of National Transformation (ANT), Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), and the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) were all represented by their top leaders on the matter.

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