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Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni

Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni

Uganda’s constitutional court validates law allowing Museveni to seek re-election

byAgency Report
July 27, 2018
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Uganda’s constitutional court has approved the removal of the presidential age limit of 75 years, a ruling that would potentially allow President Yoweri Museveni to extend his three-decade rule.

The court endorsed parliament’s decision to scrap the cap in December that drew accusations from opposition
parties that the 73-year-old Museveni wanted to be president for life and brought protesters onto the streets.

“The removal of age limit may encourage an incumbent to wish to keep himself in office perpetually but the citizens still retain the power to either return the same president or elect a different one,” said Elizabeth Musoke, one of three judges who endorsed the amendment.

One of the five judges said no, another had yet to deliver his verdict.

Museveni, whose 32-year rule of the east African country has been marked by corruption scandals, human rights
violations and poor social services, has yet to say whether he intends to run in the next vote, which is due in 2021.

He is the latest in a string of African leaders who have tried to prolong their time in office.

In Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, such moves have triggered instability.

In December 2017’s vote by parliament was the second time the Ugandan legislature has amended the constitution to allow Museveni to stay in power.

In 2005 they voted to remove a limit of two five-year terms, which had blocked him from standing again.

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“There is always danger that if the constitution is not strictly complied with, our hard-earned democracy shall degenerate into authoritarianism which leads to totalitarianism and dictatorship,” said Justice Kenneth Kakuru, who dissented.

“The entire constitutional amendment act … is unconstitutional and therefore null and void, and all its provisions ought to be expunged from the constitution of Uganda.”

Uganda’s judiciary is often criticised by the opposition for what they say is a failure to exercise its independence, handing Museveni victory in nearly all court cases that potentially jeopardise his hold on power, including petitions against past electoral victories.

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Many Ugandans including the political opposition, religious leaders and some members of Museveni’s own ruling party opposed the proposal to change the constitution in 2017.

Protests against the move erupted in different parts of the country prompting police to use teargas, beatings and detention to thwart them. In September fist fights broke out in parliament for two consecutive days as lawmakers opposed to the measure tried to obstruct its passage.

Nonetheless, Washington has backed Museveni as a strongman who has turned Uganda into a bulwark of stability in Africa’s troubled Great Lakes region.

The landlocked East African country is eyeing commencement of crude production in 2020 and the construction of a pipeline to export it via neighbouring Tanzania is under way.(Reuters/NAN)

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