Proscovia Oromait-Africa's Youngest/World Second Youngest Parliamentarian

The girl has done great no matter what they think, sympathy or no sympathy.

A teenage girl fresh out of high school has won a seat in Uganda's parliament, adding to the ruling party's majority but embarrassing some who say her success lowers expectations of lawmakers in the East African country. Proscovia Oromait, 19, contested elections deep in eastern Uganda to fill the seat left vacant after her father's death. President Yoweri Museveni's ruling party had been desperate for a win there, having lost seven in eight parliamentary by-elections this year. The polls are widely seen as a test of Museveni's popularity, and some calculated that she would win with a sympathy vote. She is now Uganda's youngest lawmaker ever and world yongest after Pierre-Luc Dusseault who was elected into the Candian House of Commons in 2011 at 19years 11months old.