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'''Jacinta Atuto''' is a Ugandan politician who serves as a member of parliament for Kapelebyong District in the eleventh parliament of Uganda.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Committee On Climate Change – Parliament Watch |url=https://parliamentwatch.ug/committees/committee-on-climate-change/ |access-date=2022-03-23}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2021-10-19 |title=Kapelebyong Woman MP's shs220m ambulance story — TND News |url=https://tndnewsug.com/2021/10/19/kapelebyong-woman-mps-shs220m-ambulance-story/ |access-date=2022-03-23 |archive-date=2022-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129105434/https://tndnewsug.com/2021/10/19/kapelebyong-woman-mps-shs220m-ambulance-story/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She is the deputy chairperson for the parliamentary Committee On Climate Change.<ref name=":0" /> She is a member of the National Resistance Movement.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2021-01-27 |title=MP losers flood Soroti court seeking vote recount |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/special-reports/elections/mp-losers-flood-soroti-court-seeking-vote-recount-3270960 |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Monitor}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Olukalala lw'ababaka 200 abayitiddwa mu lusirika lwa NRM wiiki ejja |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/articledetails/97181 |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=New Vision }}</ref>
== Other works == She donated an ambulance to the people of Kapelebyong.<ref name=":1" />
== Controversies == Ms Adupo Florence a former Kapelebyong Woman member of parliament for Kapelebyong District candidate on the Forum for Democratic Change who lost to Atuto, claimed that her votes in the 2021 elections were handed to her rivals who included Atuto,<ref name=":2" /> a matter Adupo took to the Soroti Chief Magistrates Court wanting the votes to be re-counted but her vote recount applications were dismissed by Chief Magistrate Monica Amono as they lacked substantial evidence to warrant a vote recount.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-30 |title=Court dismisses vote recount petitions in Teso |url=https://www.independent.co.ug/court-dismisses-vote-recount-petitions-in-teso/ |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=The Independent Uganda |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Court Dismisses Vote Recount Petitions in Teso |url=https://ugandaradionetwork.net/story/court-dismisses-vote-recount-petitions-in-teso |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Uganda Radionetwork }}</ref>
== See also ==
# List of members of the eleventh Parliament of Uganda # Sauda Kauma # Parliament of Uganda # National Resistance Movement
== References == <references />
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