Daily Monitor
Saturday February 06 2021
People take cover as police fires teargas to disperse a campaign rally in Mukono District on November 30. PHOTO/FILE
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This signifies 59.35 per cent of the registered voters.
In discussing the outcome of the elections and trying to explain the voting patterns, Dr Julius Kizza, a lecturer of Political Science at Makerere University, says the patterns appear to have been informed by the level of political awareness.
“Rural voters who are predominantly poverty-stricken peasants voted for a presidential monarchy. By contrast, the urban-based voters, who are more politically conscious, predominantly voted the Opposition. They voted for change,” Dr Kizza argues.
ANT confident independent court will annul Museveni election victory
February 2, 2021 Winnie Kiiza addressing the media
The opposition Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party is positive that the Supreme court will overturn the January 14 election victory of President Yoweri following a petition filed by the National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.
Yesterday Monday, Kyagulanyi in his petition sought for the annulment of the presidential election in which Museveni was declared the winner by the Electoral Commission on grounds that the election was marred by several electoral irregularities.
Now, ANT national coordinator Winnie Kiiza says that they still trust the court to hear the merits of Kyagulanyi s case to either annul the election or declare Kyagulanyi as the rightfully elected president.
Daily Monitor
Sunday January 24 2021
Summary
With both presidential and parliamentary elections concluded, Derrick Kiyonga looks at where all the Opposition parties stand after months of electioneering.
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Derrick Kiyonga looks at where all the Opposition parties stand after months of electioneering.
FDC
When the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) honchos sit down to do a forensic analysis of the recent elections, the outcome will be straightforward: not what they wanted. For the first time since elections were organised under the multiparty dispensation, the FDC party has lost its position as the biggest Opposition political party. They lost this time to the newly formed National Unity Platform (NUP) party.
Daily Monitor
Monday January 18 2021
Summary
NRM says. “This time round, the overwhelming NRM win was dependent on effort put in by mobilisers who explained to the local people what President Museveni and NRM have done for them. This was also as a result of NRM leaders in the area. We sat and agreed that the party should win overwhelmingly,’’ Ms Mary Karooro, the Minister for General Duties in the Office of the Prime Minister.
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Ankole and Kigezi sub-regions, which make up south western Uganda, have 65 parliamentary seats.
Of these, NRM has won 53 seats, Forum for democratic Change (FDC) three seats, while nine have gone to Independents, eight of whom are NRM leaning.
Daily Monitor
Sunday January 17 2021
NUP candidate Robert Kyagulanyi (centre) is blocked by the army as he enters Kasese District in December 2020.
Summary
At the time of his emergence, analysts believed that NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi’s strength lay in the fact that he was relatively cleaner, at least politically, and unencumbered by the past. In a space of less than five years, he led demonstrations, came face to face with death on at least two occasions and was arrested on charges of possession of firearms and treason. But all that did not stop him, writes
Isaac Mufumba.
“(Bobi Wine) is the one who has the electricity to cause change,” Bwanika suggested.