Uganda Breaks Record As 19 Year Old Proscovia Alengot Oromit Is Elected Into The Uganda Parliament.

At the age of 19,  Proscovia Alengot Oromait became Uganda’s youngest MP ever after she was declared winner of a bye election.
The final result that was announced just before midnight Wednesday revealed that the youthful political newcomer had beaten eight other candidates to the vacant seat.

Alengot now takes on a position previously held by her late father, Michael Oromait who is said to have died of natural causes in July this year.

His death consequently had left the seat vacant, prompting a by-election. Oromait’s daughter immediately expressed her interest.

She was elected flagbearer for the NRM party after she had won the party primaries a little over two weeks ago.

From the Wednesday by-election, Alengot won with a total of 11,590 votes.

Proscovia  Alengot looks visibly young and childish, but she is determined to serve her people just as well as her late father did. She was due to join University but the Ruling NRM part stalwarts identified her as one who could spark off emotions of sympathy and bring success to the party. Many commentators saw the resort to a 19 year old girl by the ruling party as an act of political desperation given that they had been losing a string of bye-elections held in recent times.

According to the Guinness records, the world’s youngest known Parliamentarian ever has been  MP Anton Abele. He got elected to the Swedish Parliament at the age of 18 for his activism against street violence. The other was a 19 year old Canadian, Luc Dusseault and we can say, Uganda’s Proscovia  Alengot Oromait has joined the world club of the youngest Parliamentarians