1986 Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/1986/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 1986 Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/1986/ 32 32 Uganda’s Supreme Court upholds law scrapping presidential age limit https://jjcornish.com/2019/04/ugandas-supreme-court-upholds-law-scrapping-presidential-age-limit/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/04/ugandas-supreme-court-upholds-law-scrapping-presidential-age-limit/ By a majority vote, Uganda’s Supreme Court has upheld a law scrapping the age limit of 75 years for a sitting president. This will allow 74-year-old President Yoweri Museveni to stand in elections scheduled for 2021. Uganda’s opposition fiercely resisted the so-called age-restriction act passed in December 2017. By scrapping the presidential age limit 75, […]

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]]> By a majority vote, Uganda’s Supreme Court has upheld a law scrapping the age limit of 75 years for a sitting president.

This will allow 74-year-old President Yoweri Museveni to stand in elections scheduled for 2021.

Uganda’s opposition fiercely resisted the so-called age-restriction act passed in December 2017.

By scrapping the presidential age limit 75, they argued, it was giving Yoweri Museveni a virtual life presidency.

Museveni came to power in a 1986 coup overthrowing Idi Amin and promising to restore democracy in Uganda.

He has repeated changed the law enabling him to become Africa’s fourth longest-serving president.

Opponents took the matter to Uganda’s Constitutional Court and lost.

The decision by four votes to three in the Supreme Court upholds the ruling of the Constitutional Court

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