Opposition leaders such as the Democratic Party's Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere Winnie Byanyima and Okumu Ronald Reagan had petitioned against the 2002 Political Organisations Act which banned parties from holding rallies campaigning in elections and opening offices outside Kampala; they claimed that this rendered political parties 'non-functional and inoperative' imposing a one-party state...
He stood as a reformer of the ruling National Resistance Movement gaining strength from an alliance with Museveni's opponent in the 1996 election Paul Ssemogerere of the Democratic Party whose main support is from Catholics in Buganda in the south-west...
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- EAST AFRICA
He is backed by heavyweight Baganda politicians and Democratic Party leader Paul Ssemogerere...
Neither Paul Ssemogerere's Democratic Party nor Nelson Tete's Uganda People's Congress has made many inroads into the NRM support base...
Paul Ssemogerere another southerner from Buganda but with two great advantages in the north: he is a Roman Catholic and he held office under the old northern-dominated regime of Dr...
The official count gave Paul Ssemogerere leader of the Democratic Party only 25 per cent of the votes cast...
He won over first Ankole then Buganda in the south-west whose people deserted their own candidate Paul Ssemogerere to vote massively for Museveni in May's presidential elections (AC Vol 37 No 11)...
His rivals (both from the country's most numerous people the Baganda) were Paul Ssemogerere the elderly Democratic Party veteran of most governments since Independence who won 23...
vote in Buganda where the electioneering competition between Museveni and his Democratic Party opponent Paul Ssemogerere has been most intense...
His main challenger Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere of the Democratic Party is a veteran party politician...
