The National Resistance Movement, NRM yesterday embarked on a fresh process of registering its members after five years of demanding its register from the fired Prime Minister and former Secretary General NRM Amama Mbabazi but in vain.The party has also postponed its primaries. The primaries will now be held in September 2015 instead of August 2015 as had earlier been announced by the Secretariat at the Kyankwanzi retreat.
Now that the party has the register, it plans by the end of next month to have carried out fresh recruitment and registration of its members so that it can generate a new register.
It is after this process that the party will schedule elections for its administrative positions and also carry out primaries for its flag bearers in the various political contests across the country. It will then summon the national delegates’ conference to decide the presidential flag bearer and also launch the NRM manifesto.
Lumumba says as of today, the NRM doesn’t have a register that is why; the secretariat is embarking on this new process of massive recruitment and registration of members.
ROADMAP
- Demarcation of constituencies and electoral areas [March 10-April 18],
- Display of lists of administrative units, local governments, constituencies and electoral areas at parish and sub county levels [April 23-May 7 ],
- reorganizing polling stations [May 5-May 30],
- NRM members’ register compilation, display, complaints and final display [May 18-July 12]
- Display of reorganized polling stations at parish and sub county level [July 7-July 26 2015]
- The internal NRM elections of administrative heads from the village to the districts [July13 to August16 2015]
- General update of the register in each parish [September 1 ]
- Primaries for NRM flag bearers for parliamentary, local government [August 31 to September 30 2015],
- Meetings of NRM organs including national delegates conference, election of the presidential flag bearer, adoption of the NRM campaign manifesto among others [October 2015].
Note that the NRM manifesto, presidential and general election will be launched shortly after the Namboole delegates’ conference in the same month of October.