Forum for Democratic Change
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The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), founded on December 16, 2004, is the main opposition party in Uganda. FDC was founded as an umbrella body mostly for disenchanted former members and followers President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement. Its chairman, Kizza Besigye, formerly a close ally of Museveni, was presidential candidate in the 2001 presidential elections.
FDC was the greatest challenge to the National Resistance Movement in the 2006 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Besigye was the party's presidential candidate, taking 37% of the vote against Museveni's 59%. Besigye alleged fraud and rejected the result.
In the general election of 23 February 2006, the party won 37 out of 289 elected seats. In the presidential election of the same date Besigye won 37.4 % of the vote.
External links
Press articles (chronological)
- [Party urges Uganda aid suspension], BBC News, 22 April 2005
- [Uganda: Key Opposition MPs Arrested], Human Rights Watch, 26 April 2005
- [Three Killed at Opposition Event] The Monitor 16 February 2006
- [Appeal for Uganda Election Calm] BBC News, 17 February 2006
- [Opposition Leader takes lead in election polls] Weekly Observer, 17 February 2008
- [Museveni faces stiff challenge] Reuters, 18 February 2006
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