Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Annet Anita Amongst, has officially confirmed that eight Contributors of Parliament bear switched political allegiance from the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to the Of us’s Front for Freedom (PFF).
The announcement used to be made within the center of a diversified parliamentary sitting held on Thursday at Kololo Independence Grounds, appropriate kind before the reading of the national funds for the 2025/2026 monetary year. Whereas chairing the session, Speaker Amongst learn out the names of the MPs and confirmed having bought formal dialog of their defection.
The MPs who bear crossed to the PFF consist of Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda (Kira Municipality), Asinansi Nyakato (Hoima District Woman MP), Dr. Nicholas Kamara (Kabale Municipality), Katusabe Atkins Godfrey (Bukonjo County West), and Francis Mwijukye (Buhweju County). Others are Moses Kabusu (Kyamuswa County), Harold Muhindo (Bukhozo East), and Betty Aol Ochan, the ancient Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
This pattern follows an earlier announcement closing week wherein eight other MPs had been confirmed to bear defected from their long-established events to both the ruling Nationwide Resistance Circulation (NRM) or the newly fashioned Democratic Front (DF). With the most modern wave, the PFF becomes the finest recipient of defecting MPs.
Moreover, Kilak North MP Akol Anthony and Ongiertho Emmanuel of Jonam County bear moved from the FDC to the NRM, additional weakening the celebration’s representation in Parliament. Uganda’s Structure, underneath Article 83, offers that a Member of Parliament might presumably also lose their seat within the occasion that they voluntarily go the political celebration underneath which they had been elected.
On the other hand, an exception exists for MPs who unsuitable to one other celebration inner the final twelve months before a overall election, within the center of which political realignments are authorized. As a lot as now, no MP has been officially reported to bear defected from the ruling NRM. With ten MPs now having left the FDC, the celebration emerges because the finest loser in terms of parliamentary representation.
The mass exit is widely linked to internal divisions inner the celebration, sparked by allegations that some senior leaders had bought funds from President Yoweri Museveni—a charge that resulted in favorite dissatisfaction among participants aligned with opposition figure Dr. Kizza Besigye. Most of the defectors bear since aligned themselves with the newly launched Of us’s Front for Freedom.
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