{"id":41856,"date":"2019-05-28T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T08:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=41856"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T08:11:20","slug":"ec-challenged-to-review-campaigning-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ec-challenged-to-review-campaigning-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"EC challenged to review campaigning laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ritah kemigisa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission and the National Consultative Forum have been challenged to champion the review\u00a0political\u00a0campaign laws in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinator citizen\u2019s coalition for electoral democracy in Uganda Crispin Kaheru says this is the only way through which all political parties will be allowed to freely conduct campaigns throughout the electoral cycle.<\/p>\n<p>His challenge comes after the electoral commission distanced itself from claims that President Yoweri Museveni has started carrying out campaigns ahead of the 2021 poll.<\/p>\n<p>Kaheru says political campaigning is every political parties\u2019 day-to-day business to influence public policy, recruit members or even\u00a0organize\u00a0their grassroots structures.<\/p>\n<p>It is from this that he says it is not justifiable to have political party campaigns and formations four months to the polling day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah kemigisa The Electoral Commission and the National Consultative Forum have been challenged to champion the review\u00a0political\u00a0campaign laws in Uganda. The coordinator citizen\u2019s coalition for electoral democracy in Uganda Crispin Kaheru says this is the only way through which all political parties will be allowed to freely conduct campaigns throughout the electoral cycle. His challenge comes after the electoral commission distanced itself from claims that President Yoweri Museveni has started carrying out campaigns ahead of the 2021 poll. Kaheru says political campaigning is every political parties\u2019 day-to-day business to influence public policy, recruit members or even\u00a0organize\u00a0their grassroots structures. It is from this that he says it is not justifiable to have political party campaigns and formations four months to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-41856","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\/41856"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}