Normative theories of democracy assert that politicians should pay attention to the wishes of the electorate during election campaigns.

Election campaigns are one point in the political process in which the masses of the population can directly participate in government policies, according to former prime minister, Apollo Nsibambi.

He says that an election campaign is a feedback mechanism from voters to the government.

Feedback mechanism is a means of exchanging information so that the views and aspirations of office bearers and voters can be mutually adjusted to the advantage of the voters.

Otherwise it is not a time to manipulate voters with the corruption of tea, sugar and soap, bribes and brown envelopes but rather focus on voter concerns and needs that the reigning government might has ignored in the past.

He says Ugandans across the ethnic divides need better roads, well equipped hospitals, better schools, affordable water services, attractive salaries, job opportunities, affordable power services and security.

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A source in government intimates to us that the appointing authority has instructed the commission chairman, Prof. Badru Kiggundu to outline all the commission workers sidelining with opposition such that they can be replaced with neutral ones.

A source in statehouse tells us that the president is not happy because intelligence chiefs briefed him that some of the electoral chiefs rig the polls in favour of opposition candidates.

Now the president has instructed Kiggundu to give him more information on the development such that the wrong elements in the commissioned can be fired and replace with moderate ones.

The development follows the recently concluded Luweero district woman parliamentary by elections in which the National Resistance Movement, the ruling party in Uganda lost the polls to the Democratic Party.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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