NRM delegates to meet
May 27, 2010
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) national chairman, President Yoweri Museveni, has called a delegates’ conference from June 25 to 27 at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole.
By Joyce Namutebi
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) national chairman, President Yoweri Museveni, has called a delegates’ conference from June 25 to 27 at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole.
NRM deputy spokesperson Ofwono Opondo yesterday said an amendment of the NRM constitution is expected to be moved, among other issues.
He said this would provide for universal adult suffrage elections for primaries for those intending to seek candidature from LC1 to Parliament.
Museveni is expected to brief the delegates on what has happened since the last national delegates’ conference in October 2005, where the delegates elected the presidential candidate for the 2006 elections, adopted the NRM manifesto and elected the current office-bearers.
Ofwono said if the delegates agree, the national conference would be dissolved at the end of the conference instead of waiting for October when its mandate expires.
“Elections will be held from village level to district and the primaries to give a new membership of the national conference,†Ofwono explained.
If NRM delegates endorse the proposal, it will be the new national conference that will elect the 2011 presidential candidate and new office-bearers.
“If all goes well, the new national conference will be at the end of July or mid-August,†Ofwono said.
The national conference consists of the national chairperson, the vice-chairpersons, NRM MPs, all people who stood as MPs on the NRM ticket but lost, NRM sub-county chairpersons, NRM LC3 chairpersons, and NRM LC5 councillors, among others.
Ofwono said the chairman is permitted to invite up to 50 guests as observers.
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) national chairman, President Yoweri Museveni, has called a delegates’ conference from June 25 to 27 at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole.
NRM deputy spokesperson Ofwono Opondo yesterday said an amendment of the NRM constitution is expected to be moved, among other issues.
He said this would provide for universal adult suffrage elections for primaries for those intending to seek candidature from LC1 to Parliament.
Museveni is expected to brief the delegates on what has happened since the last national delegates’ conference in October 2005, where the delegates elected the presidential candidate for the 2006 elections, adopted the NRM manifesto and elected the current office-bearers.
Ofwono said if the delegates agree, the national conference would be dissolved at the end of the conference instead of waiting for October when its mandate expires.
“Elections will be held from village level to district and the primaries to give a new membership of the national conference,†Ofwono explained.
If NRM delegates endorse the proposal, it will be the new national conference that will elect the 2011 presidential candidate and new office-bearers.
“If all goes well, the new national conference will be at the end of July or mid-August,†Ofwono said.
The national conference consists of the national chairperson, the vice-chairpersons, NRM MPs, all people who stood as MPs on the NRM ticket but lost, NRM sub-county chairpersons, NRM LC3 chairpersons, and NRM LC5 councillors, among others.
Ofwono said the chairman is permitted to invite up to 50 guests as observers.