A member of Uganda’s delegation
to the Pan African Parliament (PAP), Hon. Anifa Kawooya has indicated interest to contest for the position of Vice President of
the continental parliament representing East Africa Region.
She is currently the Chairperson
of the Women Caucus of the Pan African Parliament and describes herself as a gender activist.
PAP’s Bureau election comes up in
May 2021, following the expiration of the tenure of the current leadership.
Hon.
Kawooya
inched closer to achieving her ambition when she was recently endorsed by the Parliament
of Uganda.
Her
endorsement was sequel to a motion by another member of Uganda’s delegation to
PAP, Hon. Jacquelline Amongin urging
the Parliament to support her. The motion was unanimously adopted.
The
Pan African Parliament was established by
Article 17 of
the Constitutive Act of the African Union to ensure the full participation of African
peoples in the development and economic integration of the continent. The seat
of the parliament is in Midrand, South Africa.
According
to the PAP Protocol, the parliament’s Bureau consists of a President and four
vice presidents representing the five regions of the continent.
Each
country delegation to the PAP consists of five (5) parliamentarians and the
tenure of the bureau is three years.
Kawooya
has been a member of Uganda’s Parliament since 2001 and a member of the Pan
African Parliament since 2016.
In October 2017 Hon. Kawooya was one of the PAP MPs that led a delegation of legislators to the
United States and successfully negotiated the lifting of sanctions on Sudan.
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