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Ugan
da took another step towards ending a 17-year ban on political
party activity Monday evening when 3,000 delegates from the ruling
"Movement" backed moves to restore pluralism.
They also called for the removal from the constitition of a
two-term limit for heads of state that would have seen President
Yoweri Museveni step down in 2006.
After two days of talks, the Movement's National Conference adopted
Friday's resolution by the National Executive Committee calling for
the "political space (to) be opened to allow those who feel
conscripted in the Movement to form parties and organizations in
accordance with the law." These and other proposals related to
economy and security are to be put before a constitutional review
commission.
Although political parties are allowed to exist in Uganda they are
not allowed to hold meetings or field candidates in elections, this
being the sole prerogative of the ruling Movement, an entity that
in theory embraces all Ugandans, from the village to the
cabinet.
Since coming to power in 1986, Museveni argued that multi-party
politics had fuelled the tribal tensions behind the massacres of
the Idi Amin and Milton Obote regimes - Sapa-AFP
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