National Unity Platform Party to Boycott EALA Elections.
- They accuse NRM of influencing the selection of candidates of the opposition because they have majority members in Parliament.
- Mpuga says elections for EALA are now a ritual not an election.
- They want Nrm to respect other political parties.
National unity platform (NUP) say it will not participate in the forthcoming elections for East Africa Legislative assembly until the ruling NRM takes the exercise serious and allow other political parties to choose their own candidates.
The leader of opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga made the statement while responding to Speaker Annet Anita Among who said that even though they had received some names from other parties, they were yet to receive names from NUP.
Mpuuga says that the ruling party believes that they should select their own members but at the same time choose candidates for other political parties, saying that NUP will not bow to such pressure.
He noted that unless the selection of members to represent Uganda to the legislative assembly stops being a ritual and becomes an election, they will not be participating.
''NUP will only participate in elections where the rules of the game and political parties are respected" he said
Kiira municipality mp Ibrahim Semujju Nganda supported Mpuga's argument saying that the speaker Anita Among was one time stopped from joining EALA by NRM while she was still in FDC.
Bugiri municipality mp Asumani Basalirwa said that the speaker her self petitioned court after NRM failed her to join the assembly and the courts of law guided on how the positions in EALA can be equitably shared among the political parties in Parliament.
NUP has the biggest number of members among st the opposition political parties in Parliament.The term of current EALA will willend on the 17th of December this year .