Saturday, 5 March 2016

Electoral Observers and ‘Free and Fair’ Elections (Tyler Falish, John Campbell, CFR)

A supporter of opposition leader Kizza Besigye looks out from behind a gate of Besigye's office in Kampala, Uganda, February 19, 2016. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

In late February, Yoweri Museveni was elected to his fifth term as Uganda’s president, extending a reign that officially began in 1986, but was preceded by years as an influential guerilla leader. The New York Times characterized the election as “widely criticized.” The main opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), had good reason to cry foul as party candidate Kizza Besigye was arrested twice in two days during the voting, and has been under house arrest almost continuously since the election on February 18.

http://blogs.cfr.org/campbell/2016/03/04/electoral-observers-and-free-and-fair-elections-2/

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