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26 May 2012
   
 
 
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
Edited by: Terence Creamer
 
 
 
 
 
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