Museveni summons NRM Central Executive Committee to decide party's Speaker and Deputy Speaker candidates

According to The Independent (URN), President Museveni called the NRM Central Executive Committee to an urgent meeting on Friday 22 May to settle on the party's preferred candidates for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 12th Parliament, ahead of the vote scheduled for 25 May. The article reports that outgoing Speaker Anita Among had withdrawn from the race that week after anti-corruption raids on properties linked to her. NRM Secretary General Richard Todwong said the party would speak only after its organs had met.