UGANDA: DP top organ to have a special meeting today
The top decision making organ of the Democratic Party (DP), the National Executive Committee (NEC), will convene today at their new party headquarters in Kampala to amend the party constitution ahead of the 2021 General Election.DP president Norbert Mao said top on the agenda of the meeting is creation of a party’s independent electoral commission.
“We want to have election rules, which will provide for appointment of an election committee headed by the chairperson because people have been complaining that we are our own electoral commission,” he told journalists on Tuesday.
Mr Mao added that they are proposing to put every division in Kampala under a party vice president for easy administration.
He added that NEC will also set the date for the party’s national delegates conferen...