The Leader of Opposition in Parliament the Rt Hon Mathias Mpuuga has said that the opposition in Parliament should not participate in the 2026 elections without any reforms!
Mpuuga was speaking at the Mid term review meeting of the Shadow Cabinet members held at Parliament yesterday.
“It will be suicidal for Opposition to plan and go for next elections without meaningful constitutional and electoral reforms” Mpuuga stated.
Mpuuga said that our constitution was nolonger serving the purpose, “I personally contend that we no longer have a valid Constitution, the 1995 constitution and what it portends are two different things” Mpuuga said.
He also said that the removal of the Presidency term limits and age limits from the Constitution had made it powerless, “any Constitutional lawyer will tell you, that in 1995 at promulgation, the predicate was a two term presidency, which is why the President was given a lot of powers and the feeling was that even if you are powerful, you after all go after two terms. So when you migrate the two terms, that is a new constitution and therefore, it no longer represent the consensus of the people,” said Mpuuga.
Opposition have always called for reforms but they have not always succeeded.
