The NRM Parliamentary caucus is mulling a proposal to amend at a 103 subsection to change the system of government from the presidential to a parliamentary system.
The proposal if endorsed by caucus and later table inform of a constitutional amendment bill will empower Members of Parliament of a Political Party that wins the majority in parliament appoint the president.
Since last week the state Minister of Urban Planning, Isaac Musumba has used the gathering in Kyankwanzi to lobby his colleagues while the caucus spokesperson Margret Muhanga has asked the MPs to back the system.
In an interview with Uganda Mirror, Hon Muhanga said their proposal is aiming at saving funds spent on the general elections.
“We are aiming at saving all those resources, every day the president is taken somewhere with a helicopter, every day we have four sets of cars taking him to the next rally,” she said.
She added that the MPs should go to their constituencies, fight for themselves and come to parliament.
“Let him get out of elections, and MPs should go to the field and tell their people.”
She further added that president Museveni in the last general elections spent over Shs1billion.
“The half of this money can be diverted to Members of Parliament to win the majority,” She explained.
According Muhanga the exponents of this proposal are yet to meet the president and are not sure whether he will support it.
“We have not told him about it, you see the president is someone who believes in himself and does not want to be detached from the people he would even fight it, so I don’t why people think we are doing it for him.”
She stated that the president knows the people and always moves down in every district and every sub county.
The Opposition Members of parliament said this proposal is only to save president Museveni from vigorous campaign trail. “I think the idea is not normal, this is not people cantered, there is an elitist aspiration that has lost way,” Hon Muwanga Kivumbi stated.
