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.
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.