Uganda’s top court upholds removal of presidential age cap
CGTN
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Uganda's top court on Thursday upheld the removal of the upper age limit for the presidency, allowing Yoweri Museveni to seek another term in office.
Museveni will be 76 years old when the East African nation holds it next presidential vote in 2021.
Parliament last year approved the removal of the 75-year age limit, with some MPs allied to the ruling NRM party saying the country had no better leader than Museveni.
A two-term limit was scrapped in 2005 to allow the current leader to seek re-election in 2016, a vote he won.
The appeal to bar the removal of the upper age limit was filed by opponents of the president in a bid to stop him from seeking a sixth term in 2021.
“This appeal therefore fails,” Chief Justice Bart Katureebe declared, in handing down the court's majority 4-3 verdict against the petitioners.