Uganda's president refuses to sign new hardline (death penalty) anti-LGBTQ+ bill
Source: The Guardian
Uganda’s president refuses to sign new hardline anti-LGBTQ+ bill
Yoweri Museveni sends bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality back to parliament for reconsideration
Samuel Okiror in Kampala
Fri 21 Apr 2023 14.53 BST
Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has refused to sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill that imposes the death penalty for homosexuality, requesting that it be returned to parliament for reconsideration.
The decision was announced on Thursday after a meeting between the president and ruling party MPs who resolved to return the hardline bill to the national assembly “with proposals for its improvement”.
It was not immediately clear whether the proposed changes would make the proposed law even tougher, although a spokesperson said the president had asked lawmakers to consider “the issue of rehabilitation”. “I totally agree with the bill, but my original problem is the psychologically disoriented person,” said Museveni, according to a statement.
Museveni has 30 days within which to either sign the legislation into law, return it to parliament for revisions, or veto it and inform the parliamentary speake. It may, however, pass into law without the president’s assent if he returns it to parliament twice.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/20/ugandas-president-refuses-to-sign-new-hardline-anti-gay-bill
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