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UGANDA: Stability without legitimacy cannot last - Kofi Annan Foundation


Kofi Annan Foundation
18 January 2021
UGANDA: Stability without legitimacy cannot last
On Saturday, Uganda’s electoral commission announced that 76-year-old incumbent President Yoweri Museveni won a sixth term in Uganda’s general elections last week by a landslide. Sebastian Brack, Head of Elections and Democracy at the Kofi Annan Foundation, explains why stability without legitimacy cannot last.
Unfortunately, this victory is unlikely to confer the mantle of legitimacy that leaders need to rule effectively. The results have already been denounced by the opposition, whose leader is under house arrest, claiming they have proof of fraud.
Professor Nic Cheeseman, an expert on elections in Africa who participated in the Society for International Development/Kofi Annan Foundation’s recent conference on democracy in East Africa, had cautioned ahead of the elections: “This is not really an election; it is a staged event.” ....

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Uganda goes to the polls in elections marred by repression

Uganda will vote on Thursday in presidential and parliamentary elections marred by political repression as singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine challenges President Yoweri Museveni’s 34-year rule. The most prominent of the ten opposition candidates is the National Unity Platform’s Bobi Wine – a 38-year-old ragga star who has used his popularity with Uganda’s youthful population to defy the 76-year-old president and his party the National. ....

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