With only five days to polling day, presidential candidates have been defended for breaching the election guidelines on campaign time.<\/p>\n
Several reports have indicated that the three main contenders; Forum for Democratic Change (FDC\u2019s) Dr.Kiiza Besigye, NRM’s Yoweri Museveni and independent candidate Amama Mbabazi have all violated electoral guidelines on time which requires them to stop campaigning at 6:00pm.<\/p>\n
The past two days saw both Museveni and Besigye campaign beyond 9:00pm, which raised questions among some sections of the public.<\/p>\n
However, the Chairman Citizen\u2019s Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda Dr. Livingston Ssewanyana says such a requirement is unrealistic at a time when candidates are racing against time to ensure all the 112 districts are covered.<\/p>\n
Campaigns officially end on Tuesday February 16th<\/sup> after which it will be illegal to market a candidate.<\/p>\n Story by Moses Kyeyune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With only five days to polling day, presidential candidates have been defended for breaching the election guidelines on campaign time. Several reports have indicated that the three main contenders; Forum for Democratic Change (FDC\u2019s) Dr.Kiiza Besigye, NRM’s Yoweri Museveni and independent candidate Amama Mbabazi have all violated electoral guidelines on time which requires them to stop campaigning at 6:00pm. The past two days saw both Museveni and Besigye campaign beyond 9:00pm, which raised questions among some sections of the public. However, the Chairman Citizen\u2019s Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda Dr. Livingston Ssewanyana says such a requirement is unrealistic at a time when candidates are racing against time to ensure all the 112 districts are covered. Campaigns officially end on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}