{"id":2039,"date":"2020-10-10T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2020-10-10T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:13:40","slug":"nomination-of-candidates-for-parliamentary-elections-moved-to-october15-16-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/nomination-of-candidates-for-parliamentary-elections-moved-to-october15-16-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS MOVED TO OCTOBER15-16 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) has extended the  nomination of candidates for Parliamentary Elections 2021, from Monday 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and Tuesday 13<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a02020, to Thursday 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and Friday 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nominations shall be conducted at the respective District\/City headquarters across the country, beginning at 9:00am and ending at 5:00pm on each of the appointed dates,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Electoral Commission urges all aspiring candidates in the above electoral process to carefully note the above revised programme and to prepare for nominations in accordance with the guidelines issued for the exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission (EC) has extended the nomination of candidates for Parliamentary Elections 2021, from Monday 12th\u00a0and Tuesday 13th\u00a02020, to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2040,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Simon-Byabakama-Mugenyi.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6308,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electoral-commission-kicks-off-nomination-of-candidates-for-gogonyo-bukimbiri-parliamentary-by-elections\/","url_meta":{"origin":2039,"position":0},"title":"ELECTORAL COMMISSION KICKS OFF NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR GOGONYO, BUKIMBIRI PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTIONS","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"August 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Electoral Commission has set August 1, 2022 the day for nominations of candidates to contest in the by-election for Member of Parliament for Bukimbiri County and Gogonyo County constituencies . 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