{UAH} Are our current Party leaders promoting healthy democratic attitudes!
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Fellow Ugandans,
All our political parties have got to find healthier ways to promote from within those with Presidential aspirations -give them all a chance to run in the primaries and let the winner square off with other winners from each Party in the general elections. All like minded Ugandans have got to find a way to rally around this working principle and demand from their respective Party leaders to implement it with immediacy, if we want to rescue our democracy.
This is how these other Parties are going to show us that they tolerate dissent and their current leadership holds dear -the concept of political ascendancy within their own ranks. When you look closely at the fellows on top, they have not demonstrated to us at all that they represent that culture -will Olara Otunnu for example give up the seat after one or two terms -has he written such a contract with the People of Uganda.
We have been bitten far too many times to take things lightly - we want these fellows to write a binding contract -the likes of a preternatural agreement -stating clearly that when the time is ripe -they will not work against us to overstay in office. That they are currently working to repeal the law that has allowed President Museveni to run in perpetuity. Absence of such a culture and contract within our Parties spells disaster for Uganda's democracy.
Tendo Kaluma
Ugandan in Boston
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"To ask a dictator to implement democratic measures after 30 years in power is an oxymoron"
All our political parties have got to find healthier ways to promote from within those with Presidential aspirations -give them all a chance to run in the primaries and let the winner square off with other winners from each Party in the general elections. All like minded Ugandans have got to find a way to rally around this working principle and demand from their respective Party leaders to implement it with immediacy, if we want to rescue our democracy.
This is how these other Parties are going to show us that they tolerate dissent and their current leadership holds dear -the concept of political ascendancy within their own ranks. When you look closely at the fellows on top, they have not demonstrated to us at all that they represent that culture -will Olara Otunnu for example give up the seat after one or two terms -has he written such a contract with the People of Uganda.
We have been bitten far too many times to take things lightly - we want these fellows to write a binding contract -the likes of a preternatural agreement -stating clearly that when the time is ripe -they will not work against us to overstay in office. That they are currently working to repeal the law that has allowed President Museveni to run in perpetuity. Absence of such a culture and contract within our Parties spells disaster for Uganda's democracy.
Tendo Kaluma
Ugandan in Boston
"To ask a dictator to implement democratic measures after 30 years in power is an oxymoron"
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