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The ruling National Resistance Movement has endorsed Jacob Marksons Oboth-Oboth as its flag bearer for Speaker of the 12th Parliament and Thomas Tayebwa as the party’s candidate for Deputy Speaker.
The announcement was made during the ongoing NRM parliamentary caucus meeting at State House Entebbe, where members of the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) met with newly elected NRM legislators to harmonize positions ahead of the formal election of parliamentary leaders.
According to Members of Parliament who attended the closed-door meeting, CEC first recommended Oboth-Oboth and Tayebwa for the two positions before the parliamentary caucus unanimously adopted the resolutions.
The MP added that three legislators who had shown interest in the Speakership race and 17 others who had expressed interest in the Deputy Speakership withdrew their bids in favor of the party position.
Once endorsed by the caucus, legislators are generally expected to support the party position at voting.
Attention will now shift to the formal election of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker when the 12th Parliament sits for its inaugural proceedings today in Kololo.
Oboth- Oboth will now face off with DP’s Nobert Mao and Paul Mwiru of NUP, who is also the opposition candidate.
