Uganda: Parties fail to declare fund sources

More than two years after Ugandans went to the first multiparty elections in 26 years, the country’s political parties have continued to defy electoral laws by failing to declare their sources of funding for the February 2006 presidential and parliamentary elections. The Political Parties and Organisations Act 2005, enacted a year before the election to provide electoral guidelines, requires parties that take part in national elections to present audited accounts of the monies spent during the exercise 30 days after election day.