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Uganda: Political Party Quits Opposition Coalition

Posted: 08/30/2010
THE Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party, one of the five political parties that form the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC), has opted out of the coalition over what it called irreconcilable reasons.

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Uganda: Opposition to Unite Against Museveni at Polls

Posted: 07/12/2010
Dissent is growing against a leader and party that have dominated the country for 24 years. On 23 August, Uganda's diverse opposition parties aim to announce their joint candidate for the presidential election next February.

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Uganda: Ruling Party Adopts New Voting System

Posted: 06/28/2010
THE National Resistance Movement (NRM) national conference has adopted the universal adult suffrage system for its primary elections.

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Uganda: Pro-Govt Militia Attack Opposition Protest

Posted: 06/10/2010
Dr Kizza Besigye, the Forum for Democratic Change president, was yesterday flogged by policemen and members of the Kiboko Squad vigilante group as he led a demonstration against the Electoral Commission in Kampala.

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Uganda: Half of Electorate Back Ruling Party

Posted: 06/04/2010
President Museveni's National Resistance Movement party could retain a majority in Parliament if elections were held tomorrow, findings of a new poll now being serialised by Daily Monitor reveal.

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Uganda: Museveni Tells Donors to Back Off 2011 Polls

Posted: 06/02/2010
President Museveni told Parliament yesterday that as surely as night follows day, the 2011 general elections will take place as scheduled, and asked Uganda's development partners to back off the country's poll preparations.

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Uganda: 68 Percent Want Museveni to Quit in 2011

Posted: 06/01/2010
Ugandans are generally satisfied with the way President Museveni has led the country but almost seven out of every 10 citizens say he should not seek re-election in 2011, a new Daily Monitor poll reveals.

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Uganda: President Defends Elections Bosses

Posted: 05/21/2010
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has defended the Electoral Commission, saying it is independent. He said the commissioners were recruited through sourcing from various professional groups, and vetted by Parliament.

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Uganda: Obama's Man Flies in Over Polls

Posted: 05/20/2010
The US government has sent its highest ranking diplomat on Africa to Uganda a month after a report highly critical of Kampala's perceived failure to move on electoral reforms was submitted to the American Congress, Daily Monitor can reveal.

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Uganda: Former Army Chief Enters Politics

Posted: 05/20/2010
FORMER army commander Maj. Gen. Jeje Odongo has retired from the army to join politics.

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Uganda: Party Leader Denies Sabotaging Opposition

Posted: 05/19/2010
Democratic Party president general Norbert Mao yesterday denied claims that he is on a mission to weaken the Opposition's hand ahead of next year's general election.

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Uganda: Voting for FDC President Begins

Posted: 04/15/2010
Voting for the Forum for Democratic Change Party president has begun in Namboole. Over 900 party delegates have lined up at ten polling stations to cast their vote for their favourite candidate.

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Uganda: Minister Attacked in Hotly-Contested Election

Posted: 03/16/2010
PEREZ Ahabwe, the Minister of State for Local Government, was on Sunday attacked by angry supporters of Jack Sabiiti, the FDC flag-bearer in the hotly contested Rukiga county parliamentary byelection.

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Uganda: Museveni Hits Back in Row With Donors

Posted: 03/15/2010
President Museveni has hit back in a continuing row with donors telling them not to ask questions about governance. The President's comments on Friday came on the same day this newspaper revealed that three senior western diplomats had written to the Electoral Commission over the slow pace of reforms ahead of next year's election.

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Uganda: Opposition Hints at 2011 Poll Stay-Away

Posted: 03/15/2010
The Electoral Commission headed by Eng. Badru Kiggundu "will not" organise the 2011 elections, Dr Olara Otunnu, a retired UN diplomat, has said.

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Uganda: How Key Election Law Was Passed in Seven Minutes

Posted: 03/12/2010
Lawmakers controversially passed a crucial Bill in a record seven minutes on the last sitting day of Parliament in 2009, opening the way for political parties to be funded by taxpayers.

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Uganda: Opposition Party Elects New Leader

Posted: 02/22/2010
Democratic Party delegates have elected Norbert Mao as the party president, replacing Mr John Ssebaana Kizito.

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Uganda: Confusion Hits Opposition Party

Posted: 02/18/2010
The Democratic Party (DP) national delegates' conference yesterday started off amid confusion caused by the abrupt change of venue and the split within the party.

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Uganda- Opposition Discusses Joint Candidates

Posted: 08/06/2009
KIZA Besigye or Olara Otunnu, who will be the opposition presidential flag-bearer come 2011 general elections?

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Uganda: Europe Backs Electoral Reforms

Posted: 07/07/2009
A top European Union diplomat yesterday backed the current demands especially by the opposition for massive electoral laws reforms ahead of the 2011 elections, to aide free and fair polls.

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Uganda: Election Laws Won't Change - Museveni

Posted: 06/22/2009
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has ruled out the reform of the electoral laws ahead of the 2011 elections, the key demand of the opposition.

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Uganda: Govt Names Fourteen New Districts

Posted: 05/20/2009
THE Government has proposed the creation of 14 new districts. If Parliament approves the plan, the number of the districts will rise to 94 from the current 80.

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Uganda: Women MPs to Meet Museveni Over Appointments

Posted: 05/14/2009
WOMEN MPs and members of civil society organisations have resolved to meet the President over a number of issues, including increasing the appointment of women to public offices.

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Uganda: Electoral Body Wins Most Court Cases

Posted: 01/29/2009
THE Electoral Commission (EC) has so far won 91 election petitions filed by former candidates in the 2006 national and local elections.

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Uganda: Opposition Parties Seal Coalition Deal

Posted: 08/06/2008
Dr Kizza Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change yesterday signed a protocol for cooperation with three other opposition party leaders, opening the door to the possibility of fielding a joint candidate in the 2011 election.

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Uganda: Ugandans Still Split On Museveni Election

Posted: 10/16/2006
UGANDANS are still split right in the middle over the fairness of the February general election that handed President Museveni a third term, a new poll shows.

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Museveni sworn in for third term

Posted: 05/12/2006
Uganda's President Museveni is to be sworn in for a third term, after his controversial re-election in February.

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Uganda: Experts Clash On Museveni Victory Vote

Posted: 03/31/2006
COL. Kizza Besigye's lawyers told the Supreme Court yesterday that the Electoral Commission (EC) shrouded the tallying and announcement of presidential election results in secrecy, which cost their client a million votes.

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Uganda: EC Concedes Errors in Final Vote Counting

Posted: 03/30/2006
THE Electoral Commission yesterday admitted to making some errors in tallying the final results of the February 23 presidential elections.

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Uganda: Presidential Poll Results Gazetted

Posted: 03/27/2006
The Electoral Commission (EC) has finally gazetted the presidential polls results in The Uganda Gazette of March 17, 2006 Volume XCVIXNo.16.

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Uganda: Museveni Tells Rival to Accept Election Defeat

Posted: 02/28/2006
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday outlined his plans for the next five years focusing on security, energy, roads, and micro finance.

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Uganda: Election Not Free And Fair - Monitors

Posted: 02/28/2006
THE DEMOCRACY Monitoring Group has said the February 23 elections fell below the expected standards of free and fair elections.

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Uganda: Election Update: Museveni Takes Nyabushozi

Posted: 02/24/2006
With the first batch of results coming in, reports indicate President Museveni was a comfortable winner at his Rusheere polling station in Nyabushozi. The incumbent amassed 478 votes, with all the other candidates getting none.

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Uganda: 40,000 to Monitor Today's Elections

Posted: 02/23/2006
About 40,000 local and international observers are to monitor the elections today.

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Uganda: Ugandans to the Polls Today to Elect a President and 284 MPs.

Posted: 02/23/2006
The Electoral Commission (EC) chairman, Badru Kiggundu, has appealed to the voters to turn up early in big numbers.

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Uganda: Candidates in Final Poll Dash As Campaigns End

Posted: 02/22/2006
CAMPAIGNS for the 2006 presidential election ended yesterday with the five candidates making last-minute efforts to win votes ahead of an election that polls show is likely to be the closest in the country's recent history.

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Uganda: UK, US Deploy Observers

Posted: 02/22/2006
THE British and US governments have deployed observers for Thursday's general elections.

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Uganda: Voter Apathy Clouds Elections

Posted: 02/21/2006
Save for consistent patterns of violence, the past three months of presidential elections in Uganda have been most unexciting.

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Uganda: Elections Unlikely to Be Free Or Fair, Says Rights Group

Posted: 02/15/2006
Uganda's first multiparty elections in two decades, scheduled for 23 February, are unlikely to be free and fair due to state intimidation of the opposition and voters, according to a leading human rights group.

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Uganda Announces Preliminary Referendum Results

Posted: 08/11/2005
Partial results of the July 28 referendum to approve the return to a multi-party political system indicate that more than 90% of the voters were in favor of the change. A low turnout of 47% has been partly attributed to inadequate civic education and heavy rains across the country. A simple majority of the votes cast is required for the referendum’s results to be valid. For the past two decades, the Movement party was the only one allowed to contest elections.

Source: ElectionGuide

Uganda Announces Referendum Date of July 1

Posted: 07/06/2004
On July 1, the Ugandan government announced that it will hold a referendum in February 2005 to determine whether multiparty politics will be permitted in the country. This announcement came in response to a court ruling that Uganda’s 2000 referendum against multiparty politics was unconstitutional.  According to the government’s announcement, the referendum will ask voters whether political groups should be able to participate in campaigns, whether multiple elections can take place on the same day, and whether the constitutional amendment restricting the president to two terms should be kept.

Source: ElectionGuide

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