{"id":31313,"date":"2022-06-20T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=31313"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:31:37","slug":"ec-sets-dates-for-bukimbiri-county-parliamentary-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/ec-sets-dates-for-bukimbiri-county-parliamentary-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Sets Dates For Bukimbiri County Parliamentary By-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Electoral Commission has released the programme for conducting the by-election of Member of Parliament for Bukimbiri County Constituency, Kisoro District.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The by\u2013election programme will commence with an update of the National Voters\u2019 Register from Monday 20th to Friday 24th&nbsp;June, 2022 at update stations in each of the twenty-four (24) parishes in Bukimbiri County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;The Commission has appointed Friday 24th&nbsp;June 2022 as the cut-off date for applying for registration as a voter and for transfer of voting location in the County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The registration and transfer of voters from one polling station to another within Bukimbiri County will not take place after Friday 24th June 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The display of the Voters\u2019 Register will be conducted for a period of ten (10) days, that is, from Tuesday 12th July to Thursday 21st July 2022, at all the seventy-two (72) polling stations in Bukimbiri County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Display of Parish Tribunal Recommendations for deletion from\/or inclusion on the Register will be conducted for six (6) days, that is, from Friday 22nd July to Wednesday 27th 2022 at the respective Parish Headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nomination of candidates will be conducted on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd August, 2022 at the Office of the District Returning Officer, Kisoro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nominated candidates will conduct campaign meetings for seven (7) days, that is, from Wednesday 3rd August till Tuesday 9th August, 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polling and tallying of results for by-election of Member of Parliament will be conducted on Thursday 11th August, 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Parliamentary seat for Bukimbiri County fell vacant following a court ruling which set aside the results of the 2021 Elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission has released the programme for conducting the by-election of Member of Parliament for Bukimbiri County Constituency, Kisoro District.&nbsp; The by\u2013election programme will commence with an update of the National Voters\u2019 Register from Monday 20th to Friday 24th&nbsp;June, 2022 at update stations in each of the twenty-four (24) parishes in Bukimbiri County. &nbsp;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":31315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,99],"tags":[7632,593,31,7633],"class_list":["post-31313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-bukimbiri-county","tag-electoral-commission","tag-featured","tag-kisoro-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31316,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions\/31316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}