Youth leaders from the Rwenzori Sub-region have promised to encourage fellow young people to take part in the 2025–2026 general elections in a peaceful and meaningful way.
These leaders are members of the Multiparty Youth Forum (MYF), a group that brings together youth from different political parties represented in Parliament. They made this promise during a meeting held on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at Rwenzori International Hotel in Kasese District.
At the meeting, they agreed to work at all levels to ensure that young people from their parties engage peacefully and responsibly in the upcoming elections.
“We, the undersigned youth members of MYF, fully commit to taking part in the 2025/2026 general elections peacefully and meaningfully as candidates, voters, supporters, and sympathizers of our political parties. We pledge to promote tolerance, dialogue, and peaceful messages,” their resolution stated.
The youth leaders also promised to spread messages of peace within their local areas and through their platforms.
“We will be agents of peace in our communities. We will promote peaceful actions and speak out against violence in our communities and political parties despite our differences in political affiliation, tribe, religion, or beliefs,” the MYF members pledged.
Nanyonjo Lynette the MYF chairperson who hails from the Peoples Progressive Party said that the efforts to have youths be agents of peace in the coming elections is not just a party youth league idea, but an idea of top leadership of all political parties under the multiparty youth forum.
“As youth League we are not working in isolation but with the secretary generals of our different parties, and they are also pushing for the same message of peaceful elections,” Nanyonjo said.
Nanyonjo further stated that as MYF they intend to traverse the whole country and spread the gospel of peace ahead of the elections.
“We started with Luwero a few months ago and in Rwenzori sub region we chose Kasese because of some cases of post election violence and we intend to visit other parts of the country as well,” Nanyonjo added.
The dialogue meeting which was organized by Netherlands Institute for multiparty democracy (NIMD) also had representatives from NRM, FDC, DP, UPC, JEEMA, Peoples Progressive Party and members from Uganda National students association (UNSA), National youth council (NYC), Uganda parliamentary forum for youth affairs, civil society organizations, security agencies, electoral commission, and religious leaders
