At least 60 percent members of parliament want a law passed to regulate campaign financing, to limit the amount of money spent by parliamentary candidates.
The development follows a survey by Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring (ACFIM) whose results were released Thursday at Metropole Hotel in Kampala.
The results indicate that 66 percent of the MPs in the 10th Parliament want the law. At least 185 out of 431 legislators in the 10th parliament participated in the phone survey that was conducted between September 16th and October 7th this year.
The survey indicates that the 51 percent of the respondents want candidates who spend beyond the legally stipulated limit to lose their seats in Parliament and be banned from contesting in future elections.
At least 68 percent of the MPs want a cap on money spent by presidential candidates during campaigns while 79 percent want a candidate found guilty of vote buying by courts to lose their seats in Parliament and be banned from elective politics.
The survey findings were presented by Henry Muguzi, the National Coordinator ACFIM, who said the push for a campaign financing law is eminent, given that the lawmakers are agitating for the same.
Crispy Kaheru, the Coordinator Citizens Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda (CCEDU), said the quality of MPs has greatly declined due to commercialization of politics.
The report shows that MPs in the 10th Parliament spent about Shillings 24.7 billion in their campaigns ahead of the 2016 general elections.
