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Source: Daily Monitor (Kampala)
Earlier today, in a press release, Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, declared Tuesday, June 26, 2001, as a one-off public holiday on the occasion of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
According to the aforementioned press release "President Museveni has declared the June 26, 2001, Parliamentary Polling Day, to be a public holiday in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by Sub Section 3 of Section 1 of the Public Holidays Act 1965, as amended by the Public Holidays Amendment Statute 1992".
Electoral public holidays are common in Uganda (05-Nov-1997 and 09-Mar-2001).
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Uganda Declares June 26 Electoral Public Holiday