Tag Archives: Opposition

New Delhi, India | Xinhua | Key leaders of 26 Indian opposition parties on Tuesday met in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru to formulate a strategy for the country’s general election due next year. The leaders have converged in the Karnataka capital to come up with a common agenda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Representatives from opposition political parties, academia, and rights activists have come together to urge Ugandans to exercise their rights in order to bring about much-needed reforms in the electoral laws and the constitution. These observations were made during a two-day consultative meeting held at Speke …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga has unveiled the opposition’s alternative national budget for the next financial year 2023/2024. The 49 Trillion Shillings budget under the theme; Rethinking Uganda’s Economy: A Human Rights Approach to Resource Allocation was delivered on Friday In his …

Mpuuga: If we had proportional representation, the People’s Progressive Party [PPP] would have more than one Member of Parliament Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A shift from the current “winner-takes-it-all” system to proportional representation is part of the Opposition’s proposed package for constitutional and electoral reforms. According to the Leader …

Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Serere County MP aspirant, Alice Alaso has called on the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party to join hands in securing victory for the opposition in the Serere by-election. Alaso made the appeal during a press briefing on Wednesday ahead of the nomination of candidates …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The head of the legal team of the National Unity Platform-NUP party Anthony Wameli is dead. According to a tweet by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the NUP Party President, Wameli died on Wednesday in the United States of America where he was taken last year to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Opposition takes an exception to a recent commitment by Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-Dollo of ensuring an expeditious trial of the Makindye West Member of Parliament, Allan Ssewanyana, and his Kawempe North counterpart, Muhhamad Ssegirinya. The Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga revealed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has reportedly named five people in its custody, out of a list of 25 missing Ugandans that was tabled by Leader of Opposition-LOP Mathias Mpuuga. The said five were reportedly named during a closed door meeting convened on Tuesday at the office of Deputy …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Opposition in Parliament has said that the proposed resource envelope for the next financial year 2023/2024 is unrealistic based on the proposed tax revenue collections and the country’s debt stock. This is according to a minority report on the proposed National Budget Framework paper …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Opposition in Parliament is adopting a new approach to the National Budget moving away from responding to the government’s propositions to developing a completely different alternative national budget, the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LOP) Mathias Mpuuga has announced. Addressing members of the …