{"id":39922,"date":"2025-05-29T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=39922"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:22:41","slug":"nup-opens-applications-for-2026-election-flag-bearers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/nup-opens-applications-for-2026-election-flag-bearers\/","title":{"rendered":"NUP Opens Applications for 2026 Election Flag Bearers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>National Unity Platform (NUP)<\/strong> has opened the application process for party members interested in contesting various positions in the <strong>2026 General Elections<\/strong> on its ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement signed by <strong>Chemutai Harriet<\/strong>, Chairperson of the party\u2019s Election Management Committee, NUP invited expressions of interest from members seeking to contest as <strong>Members of Parliament, District Chairpersons, Mayors, Local Government Chairpersons<\/strong>, and <strong>Councillors<\/strong> at all levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The application period will run from <strong>June 1 to June 23, 2025<\/strong>, with submissions accepted on weekdays between <strong>9:00 AM and 5:00 PM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applicants are required to complete a one-page Expression of Interest form, which can be downloaded from the NUP website at <a href=\"https:\/\/nupuganda.org\/nup-expression-of-interest-application-form-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/nupuganda.org\/nup-expression-of-interest-application-form-2025<\/a>. Forms are also available at constituency registrar offices, the party headquarters in <strong>Makerere-Kavule<\/strong>, and sub-regional offices across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submission guidelines indicate that forms for those seeking to contest as <strong>Members of Parliament, District Chairpersons, City and KCCA Division Mayors, KCCA Councillors<\/strong>, and <strong>Wakiso District Councillors<\/strong> should be submitted directly to the party headquarters. Aspirants for other positions can submit their forms to constituency registrars or sub-regional offices in areas such as <strong>Gulu, Arua, Lira, Moroto, Mbarara, Kabale, Kasese, Fort Portal, Hoima, Jinja, Mbale, Busia, Soroti, Kapchorwa, Mukono, Mpigi, Mubende, Masaka<\/strong>, and <strong>Luwero<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applicants must provide a copy of their <strong>NUP membership card<\/strong><br>A copy of their <strong>national identification card<\/strong><br><strong>Certified academic documents<\/strong>, which are mandatory only for those contesting as <strong>Members of Parliament, LC5 Chairpersons<\/strong>, and <strong>City Mayors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forms and supporting documents may also be scanned and sent via email to <strong><a href=\"mailto:emc@nupuganda.org\">emc@nupuganda.org<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"mailto:emcnup@gmail.com\">emcnup@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NUP noted that a separate call for expressions of interest for the <strong>Presidential flag bearer<\/strong> will be made at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Unity Platform (NUP) has opened the application process for party members interested in contesting various positions in the 2026 General Elections on its ticket. In a statement signed by Chemutai Harriet, Chairperson of the party\u2019s Election Management Committee, NUP invited expressions of interest from members seeking to contest as Members of Parliament, District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":39923,"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":[99],"tags":[159,31,109,1375,119],"class_list":["post-39922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bobi-wine","tag-featured","tag-news","tag-nup","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922","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\/2270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39924,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922\/revisions\/39924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}