Uganda: end of electoral campaign, candidates call for mass voting
Ugandan opponents Mugisha Muntu, Patrick Amuriat and Robert Kyagulanyi - better known as Bobi Wine - held a joint press conference on Tuesday January 12.
AFP - SUMY SADURNI
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The electoral campaign ended on Tuesday evening in Uganda, ahead of the general elections scheduled for Thursday, January 14.
Tuesday in the day, the various parties expressed a last message to their supporters before the poll.
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With our correspondent in Kampala
,
Lucie Mouillaud
“
Go vote massively
”.
This is the call launched by all the candidates on Tuesday, for the last day of the campaign.
Outgoing President Yoweri Museveni called on all citizens for calm on election day.
In power since 1986, Yoweri Museveni is seeking a sixth term.
He will be opposed to 10 other candidates, including Bobi Wine, singer turned MP and now main opposition candidate.
The head of state assured that the police were in place so that Ugandans can go to the polls in safety, despite, according to him, some intimidation carried out by opposition activists.
For their part, the other three main candidates, Bobi Wine of the National Unity Platform, Patrick Amuriat of the Forum for Democratic Change, and Mugisha Muntu, of the Agency for a National Transformation, held a joint press conference on Tuesday. morning.
In addition to encouraging their supporters to go and vote on Thursday, they called on them to stay close to polling stations to ensure their votes are counted.
Objective according to them: to protect the votes, and prevent possible attempts at electoral fraud.
The Ugandan authorities also asked telephone operators on Tuesday to
cut social networks in the country
.
President Museveni, in his remarks, apologized for the measure, but said he had no choice after Facebook closed dozens of pro-regime accounts.
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