This post is part of our special coverage Uganda: Walk to Work Protests.
Uganda's Presidential and Parliamentary Elections will be held on 18 February 2011. The leading candidates for the presidential race are the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), Dr. Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and Norbert Mao who represents the Democratic Party (DP). An opinion poll funded by Deepening Democracy Programme, gives President Museveni 65 per cent. President Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986.
This is our Online Guide to Uganda's Presidential Elections 2011.
President Yoweri Museveni:
National Resistance Movement (NRM)
Dr. Kizza Besigye:
Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)
Dr. Beti Kamya
Uganda Federal Alliance (UFA)
Norbert Mao
Democratic Party (DP)
Dr. Olara Otunnu
Uganda People's Congress (UPC)
Uganda Watch 2011:
Uganda Watch 2011 is a website created to provide Ugandans with a way to share their observations about elections and to provide comprehensive information about elections from a variety of sources. Citizens can SMS 6090 to report election abuses, ask questions, or praise individuals or groups that are contributing to a good election. Messages are reviewed and validated by a team of trained reviewers employed by the Democracy Monitoring Group (DEMGroup), the primary sponsor of Ugandawatch2011.org.
This post is part of our special coverage Uganda: Walk to Work Protests.
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Let us make elections FREE and FAIR so that politics will be interesting again