Opposition politicians are worried over the declining trend in respect for freedom of expression, police brutality, the narrowing civic and political space. They also raised concerns about the increasing commercialization of elections.
The Constitutional Court has today ruled to throw four outspoken legislators out of parliament after they were expelled from the ruling NRM party last year. In a 4 to 1 ruling, the judges said the four MPs commonly referred to as “rebels†for always going against party positions, are in parliament illegally after the party on which they stood and won elections in 2011 expelled them.
Democratic Party’s National Spokesperson, Emmanuel Mwaka Lutukumoi has defected to the ruling National Resistance Movement which he has opposed for almost half his entire life.
