By Leonard Kamugisha Akida,
KAMPALA
The Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) has expressed concerns about the deliberate failure of the Electoral Commission to include local council elections in the released roadmap for 2026 general elections.
“UPC is concerned about the missing of the LC 1, 2 and women council elections in the revised roadmap for 2025-26 elections,” UPC said.
The party spokesperson, Sharon Oyat Arach called for the revision of the roadmap to include election of these structures stating that they are essential in the country’s politics.
On Tuesday, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) released the roadmap for the 2026 elections in which they announced dates for the nomination and voting of leaders at presidential, parliamentary and local government elections.
According to Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, the EC chairman, elections for presidential, parliamentary and local government elections would take place on January 12 and February 9, 2026. He added that nomination of candidates for presidential, parliamentary and local government elections seats would take place on September 17 and October 3, 2025.
This was during the national workshop on the demarcation of electoral areas for the next local council elections and reorganizing of polling stations which will commence in August, 2024.
During the workshop, Byabakama revealed that the commission requires over Shs1. 387 trillion for implementing the next elections much higher than Shs698.656 billion which was spent in 2021 elections. He added that 1.9 million positions will be contested including 485,475 position for women’s council.
