The Article also adds that the MPs shall include the vice-president and ministers who, if not already elected a members of Parliament, shall be ex-officio members without the right to vote on any issue requiring a vote in Parliament. The current eleventh Parliament has 529 elected MPs and 27 ex-officio members – the largest Parliament in East Africa by far – having grown from 445 lawmakers in the 10th parliament. “That means the other half of parliament is not active in the legislation function. However, most Bills in the 10th Uganda Parliament were found to have stayed up to three months at the committee stage. South Sudan’s parliament currently has 170 seats in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly and 50 in the Council of States.

Source: Daily Nation May 06, 2022 08:44 UTC