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Referendum date set

    NAIROBI

    Ugandans will go to the polls on 29 June for a national referendum on political systems, news organisations have reported, quoting Ugandan electoral commission chairman Azizi Kasujja. The referendum will offer Ugandans an opportunity to decide on which political system they wish to have: multi-party democracy or the ‘no-party’ National Resistance Movement (NRM) model of President Yoweri Museveni. The Multiparty National Referendum Committee (MNRC) is encouraging people to reject the NRM system in the referendum, while the mainstream political parties - including the Democratic Party (DP) and the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) - have called for a boycott on the basis that the principle of democratic pluralism should not be up for debate.

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