{"id":5802,"date":"2022-06-01T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=5802"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:48:26","slug":"the-electoral-commission-chairman-justice-byabakama-has-released-roadmap-for-village-women-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/the-electoral-commission-chairman-justice-byabakama-has-released-roadmap-for-village-women-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN JUSTICE BYABAKAMA HAS RELEASED ROADMAP FOR VILLAGE WOMEN ELECTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Elections for village women Executive Committees to be held on July 7th, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No fees will be charged for nominations <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Electoral Commission Chairman , Justice Simon Byabakama has released a comprehensive roadmap for the much anticipated  elections for the Village Women Executive Committees will be conducted on July 7th ,2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The nominations of candidates will carried out from June 27, 2022 to Junly 1, 2022 at the respective Sub County\/City Division Headquarters, Uganda\u2019s Electoral Commission  stated .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice  Byabakama said that  an aspiring candidate for any office on the Women\u2019s Committee shall be a female ordinarily resident in the village, aged eighteen (18) years of age or above and a citizen of Uganda; registered on the Village Women\u2019s Council Register and no academic qualifications shall be required. There  will not be any fees paid for nominations .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman  while addressing the  media at the EC headquarters  in Kampala explained that the  nomination of candidates may be made by a political party sponsoring a candidate or by a candidate standing for elections as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cThe conduct of Women Councils\/Committees Elections are progressive in nature starting at Village and ending at National Level. This means that for one to be elected at National Level, she should have been successfully elected right from Village level.  please note that for one to be elected at National level, she should have been successfully elected right from the village level,\u201d Byabakama  added.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current Women Councils and Committees were elected during the period June \u2013 August 2018, and the Executive Committee of the National Women\u2019s Council was constituted on 23rd-24 August 2018. According to the National Women\u2019s Council Act, the terms of office of the said Councils and Committees is four (4) years, implying their term will elapse in August 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections for village women Executive Committees to be held on July 7th, 2022 No fees will be charged for nominations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5803,"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":[128,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/byabakama2021.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5244,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/the-electoral-commission-rolls-out-national-verification-exercise-for-all-administrative-units-ahead-of-lc-12-and-women-council-elections\/","url_meta":{"origin":5802,"position":0},"title":"THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION ROLLS OUT NATIONAL VERIFICATION EXERCISE FOR ALL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS AHEAD OF LC 1,2 AND WOMEN COUNCIL ELECTIONS","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"March 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"As another national elections circles nears ,the Electoral Commission (EC) is rolling out a national verification exercise of all administrative units to prepare for Local Council 1 and 2, and women councils\u2019 elections. hon. 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