The National Resistance Movement top organ, the Central Executive Committee is set to vet its party Aspirants vying for the Parliamentary sits in the East African Legislative Assembly.
On Thursday this week, The NRM Electoral Commission concluded the expression of interest excises, which saw over 100 members picking interest for the six EALA sit slots available in the regional parliament
Articles 48 and 50 of the Treaty for the Establishment of the EAC providing for the membership and election of members of the East African Legislative Assembly.
The membership of EALA currently stands at 62, with nine Elected Members from each of the six EAC Partner States and eight Ex-officio Members. Members are indirectly elected, being voted into their positions by their respective National Assemblies, though not from the ranks of those Assemblies
The E.A.C consists of seven partner states which are; Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania who started as pioneers later on joined by Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan and recently, Democratic Republic of Congo