Constitutional Court of Uganda - 2019 December

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December 2019
Parliament may prescribe constituency numbers by resolution, but demarcation and valid elections require the Electoral Commission and constitutionally established vacancies.
Constitutional law – Representation of the people – Parliament’s power to prescribe number of constituencies (Art 63(1)) – Demarcation is Electoral Commission function (Art 61(1)(c); Art 63(2)–(5)) – Saved existing constituencies (Art 294) – Vacancies and timing of elections (Art 63(6); Art 81–84) – Premature elections void ab initio.
27 December 2019
12 December 2019