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The Uganda People's Congress (UPC; Swahili: Congress ya Watu wa Uganda) is a political party in Uganda. [2] [3] UPC was founded in 1960 by Milton Obote, who led the country to independence alongside UPC member of parliament A.G. Mehta. [4] Obote later served two presidential terms under the party's banner. Obote was still the party head when he ...
Olara A. Otunnu (born 6 September 1950) [1] [2] is a Ugandan politician, diplomat, and lawyer. He was President of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), a political party, from 2010 to 2015 and stood as the party's candidate in the 2011 presidential election. [3]
According to Akena Adoko, former head of the General Service Unit in Uganda, it took time for socialism to be established in Uganda because of the political realities of the time: [1] The first and nominal socialist phase was from 1952 to 1963 when the Uganda National Congress and later the UPC professed socialism.
The UPC aimed to erode the power and influence of the "Mengo Establishment", a group of traditionalist Baganda that led the sub-national kingdom of Buganda. [1] The Mengo Establishment was plagued by rivalries and infighting, but most of its members, as Protestant Christians , were united by their dislike of the Democratic Party (DP), which was ...
Until a constitutional referendum in July 2005, only one political organization, the Movement (also called the National Resistance Movement) was allowed to operate in Uganda. The president, who also chairs the Movement, maintained that the Movement was not a political party , but a mass organization that claimed the loyalty of all Ugandans.
This is a list of members elected to the eleventh Parliament of Uganda (2021 to 2026) in the 2021 Ugandan general election. It was preceded by the tenth Parliament (2016 to 2021). List of members
The Uganda People's Union together with the Obote-led faction of the UNC formed a new party, the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), in March 1960. The DP and UPC parties became major political parties in Uganda. The UNC became less of a force, mainly because DP became popular and a new party, Kabaka Yekka, emerged. [7]
General elections were held in Uganda on 25 April 1962 in preparation for independence on 9 October. However, elections were not held in all parts of the country, with the Parliament of Buganda nominating 21 members (all of whom belonged to the Kabaka Yekka party) to the national parliament instead.