The Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has asked all the eligible party members interested in running for political positions in 2021 to pick registration forms.

Patrick Amuriat, the party president said that the designated forms must be filled in before the end of the month ahead of the party primaries.

Amuriat made these remarks yesterday June, 9 while speaking at the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi.

Amuriat also revealed that the registration process shall be done in three categories that is to say, presidential and parliamentary, mayoral then local council elections.

“During last week’s sitting of management and the National Executive Committee (NEC), we approved a revised internal electoral roadmap. All FDC members are hereby advised to fill in expression of interest forms indicating positions they want to contest for in the forthcoming General Election,” Amuriat said.

“The exercise will be closed end of this June. If you want to be a presidential or parliamentary candidate, you must return your form to the headquarters and hand it in to the party electoral commission. Aspiring candidates for city mayor and district chairperson are also supposed to submit their expression of interest forms to the headquarters ,” he added.

Amuriat said the rest of the candidates can submit their forms to the district or constituency electoral commission.

“We will also make provision for online registration. The secretary general and the electoral commission will transit these forms to all our branches soonest,” he said.

The party plans to hold party primaries in July and August for local council positions, and August and September for parliamentary and presidential aspirants according to Amuriat.

Amuriat also noted that the party’s NEC also approved a manifesto development committee headed by former Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Wafula Oguttu.

FDC’s internal roadmap comes at a time when the government is yet to decide the fate of the 2021 General Election given the current Covid-19 pandemic has affected the electoral roadmap.

Last month, while speaking on a local television in Uganda, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said that it would be madness to conduct elections when we still have coronavirus in the world.

“If the virus can stop around June, then we can have elections. We don’t have to have a long period of campaigns, elections are not a big issue, we can organize quickly,” Museveni said.