Presidential challenger Kizza Besigye will never have a better chance of forcing a second-round run-off by bringing President Yoweri Museveni’s share of the vote below 50%...
In the presidential election on 18 February he is increasingly likely to take more than 50% in the first round avoiding a run-off against Colonel Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)...
However Colonel Kizza Besigye presidential candidate for the Forum for Democratic Change who is hoping to force a second-round run-off in February has so far failed to exploit the issue...
Kizza Besigye competing in his third successive election remains the greatest threat to Museveni...
On 31 August Forum for Democratic Change leader Kizza Besigye was confirmed as the unity candidate for February’s presidential and parliamentary elections...
‘This government has worked hard to make people hate Uganda ’ the Forum for Democratic Change’s presidential candidate Kizza Besigye told us...
’ The Democratic Party (DP) has already decided to put up its own man Norbert Mao in the first round of the contest arguing that the opposition unity project is merely a vehicle for FDC leader Kizza Besigye who is widely expected to be chosen as standard-bearer since his party remains by far the most significant in the opposition...
Vol 51 No 15 |
- SOMALIA
- UGANDA
‘Museveni will use this attack to intensify fear among the people ’ FDC presidential candidate Kizza Besigye told Africa Confidential...
It links the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) Justice Forum (JEEMA) and the Conservative Party; few doubt that the FDC leader Kizza Besigye a former ruling party stalwart and colonel will be its standardbearer...
* Kizza Besigye Forum for Democratic Change (FDC): Election defeats in 2001 and 2006 have not stopped Besigye from becoming the FDC’s standard-bearer for a third time...