{"id":15643,"date":"2025-10-08T16:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=15643"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:35:35","slug":"electoral-commission-summons-presidential-candidates-agents-and-police-to-enforce-campaign-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electoral-commission-summons-presidential-candidates-agents-and-police-to-enforce-campaign-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Commission Summons Presidential Candidates Agents And Police To Enforce Campaign Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Our Reporters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Electoral Commission has held a closed door meeting with agents of the eight presidential candidates and leadership of the Uganda Police Force to reiterate the set campaign guidelines to avoid clashes and ensure a peaceful campaign program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EC spokesperson, Julius Mucunguzi, said the meeting which sat in confidence was convened remind all parties involved about the commitments they made before the campaigns started .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe convened a meeting of all agents of the candidates together with the police to discuss the progress of the campaign process so far. we wanted to hear and resolve emerging issues to ensure a peaceful process ,\u201d Mucunguzi explained .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mucunguzi, however, was happy to note that since campaigns kick-off on September 29 there have not been serious issues reported and the exercise thus far is – \u201clargely peaceful.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources privy to the meeting said the EC Chairman, Justice Simon Byabakama, warned security agents and some RDCs for being unnecessarily aggressive in the execution of their respective duties that creates tension \u201cNo RDC or security official has the authority to interrupt a duly-nominated presidential candidate’s campaign programme as long as its approved by EC ,\u201d he is reported to have told the meeting .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EC boss said the electoral body will keep monitoring the situation and will call upon those who flaut the rules to account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor: msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Our Reporters The Electoral Commission has held a closed door meeting with agents of the eight presidential candidates and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-general-elections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Byabakama.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15952,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electoral-commission-to-clarify-on-the-role-of-rdcs-in-the-on-going-presidential-campaigns\/","url_meta":{"origin":15643,"position":0},"title":"Electoral Commission to clarify on the role of RDCs in the on-going presidential campaigns","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"November 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chairperson of Uganda\u2019s Electoral Commission, Justice Simon Byabakama, announced plans to write to the President\u2019s office seeking clarification on the involvement of Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) in the electoral process, particularly regarding their role in presidential candidates\u2019 campaigns. 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