2011 Elections will be a cash race.

Big budgets are known to shape political campaigns and arguably election results – and this is not lost on the major political parties.

The Observer said that all major parties have drawn up ambitious budgets for the campaigns estimated in billions of shillings but they are still finding it difficult to raise the money.
NRM sources have told us that the party has tentatively budgeted for Shs 45 - 50 billion, the highest estimate amongst the parties. And this excludes the presidential candidate’s campaign. President Museveni’s budget is still confidential but we have been told that it is likely to be bigger than the Shs 15 billion he spent on his re-election campaign bid in 2006.