By Mulengera Reporters
The NRM Party Electoral Commission has released a tentative election road map for the forthconing round of elections. This comes moments after the very grateful National Party Chairman Gen YK Museveni renewed the mandate of Prof Fredrick Odoi Tanga to continue serving as the party’s EC Chairman.
Besides Tanga, the others on the newly reconstituted ruling party EC are former Ministers in the NRM government namely Fred Omachi (the Vice Chairman) and Major James Williams Kinobe. The other members include ex-Abim Woman MP Julian Modesta Auma, James Tweheyo (who represents Workers in CEC), Jane Babiha Alisemera (who is also a Minister in Obudingiya bwa Bwamba) and Zaitun Driwaru.
The NRM EC’s draft roadmap will have to be approved by CEC during the upcoming session slated for Wednesday 2nd April. It shows that people wanting NRM flag for MP, local council and other positions will be required to conduct joint campaign rallies, a decision the ruling party could regret as it’s likely to be prone to violent scenes; which will give fodder to the Ugandan media and thereby disreputing the ruling party.
The draft roadmap shows that the persons the ruling party will front for the positions of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Parliament will internally be votet and agreed upon between 20th and 23rd May 2026.
The incumbent duo of Anita Among and Thomas Tayebwa will most likely be retained in line with the ruling party’s tradition and practice of allowing people at that level to exhaust and serve out two terms each of 5 years. But in case that is to be departed from, which can happen, their respective successors will have to be selected and proclaimed during that same period namely 20th-23rd of May 2026.
The same draft also shows that the selection of the ruling party’s EALA flag bearers will be the very last roadmap activity and will be held between 20th & 24th August 2026.
The other scheduled activities, as has been spreading on social media, can be seen as follows:
NRM ELECTORAL COMMISSION TENTATIVE ROADMAP FOR PARTY STRUCTURES
April –May 2025
Call for Expression of Interest & Picking of Nomination Forms for Local Government Councils
Dates: April 15, 2025 – April 30, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Mobilization for Voter Register Display
Dates: April 15, 2025 – May 28, 2025
Responsible Office: Secretary General
Nomination of Candidates for Local Government Council Positions
Dates: May 2, 2025 – May 14, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Joint Campaigns for Local Government Council Positions
Dates: May 15, 2025 – May 22, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
District Conferences to Harmonize Leadership Structures
Dates: May 18, 2025 – May 30, 2025
Responsible Office: Secretary General
Primaries of SIG Committees at Village Level (Youth, PWDs, Older Persons)
Dates: May 24, 2025 – May 25, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Polling Period for Local Government Council Positions
Dates: May 24, 2025 – May 31, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Endorsement of Village SIG Committees Candidates
Dates: May 26, 2025 – June 1, 2025
Responsible Office: Secretary General
Call for Expression of Interest & Picking of Nomination Forms for MPs, LC V Chairpersons, and City Mayors
Dates: June 2, 2025 – June 15, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Primaries of SIG Committees at Parish Level
Dates: June 10, 2025 – June 12, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Nomination of Candidates for MPs, LC V Chairpersons, and City Mayors
Dates: June 16, 2025 – June 30, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Joint Campaigns for MPs, LC V Chairpersons, and City Mayors
Dates: July 1, 2025 – July 14, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
July 2025
Endorsement of Parliamentary and Local Government Flagbearers
Dates: July 20, 2025 – September 15, 2025
Responsible Office: Secretary General
Primaries of SIG Committees at District/City Level
Dates: August 3, 2025 – August 4, 2025
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Election of NRM Presidential Flagbearer, Executive Committee of CEC, ECs of Special Organs (National level)
Dates: August 22, 2025 – August 25, 2025
Responsible Office: Secretary General / NRM Electoral Commission
September 2025 – February 2026
Preparation and Presentation of NRM Presidential Candidate to NEC
Dates: September 3, 2025 – October 3, 2025
Responsible Office: Secretary General
Campaigns for Presidential, Parliamentary, and Local Government Candidates
Dates: September 1, 2025 – February 28, 2026
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Polling Period for General Elections
Dates: January 12, 2026 – February 9, 2026
Responsible Office: Independent Electoral Commission
March 2026 – August 2027
Compilation of General Election Returns
Dates: March 1, 2026 – March 31, 2026
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Election of NRM Parliamentary Caucus Executive Committee
Dates: May 20, 2026 – May 22, 2026
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Primaries for Party Flagbearers for Speaker & Deputy Speaker
Dates: May 20, 2026 – May 23, 2026
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral Commission
Primaries for Members of Parliament to the East African Legislative Assembly
Dates: August 20, 2026 – August 24, 2026
Responsible Office: NRM Electoral
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