Prospects for a One-Party System in Uganda

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Title:	Prospects for a One-Party System in Uganda
Author:	Gingyera-Pinycwa, A.G.G.
Year:	1968
Periodical:	East Africa Journal
Volume:	5
Issue:	10
Period:	October
Pages:	15-23
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Uganda
Subjects:	one-party systems Politics and Government
Abstract:	Report on the Uganda Peoples' Congress (UPC) Delegates Conference, June 1968, Kampala, and observations on possibilities and problems of the one-party system in Uganda. In 1964 Dr. Obote, the President of the UPC and at that time Prime Minister, revealed his predisposition for the one-party system. The Democratic Party (DP) and the Kabaka Yekka (KY) challenged this suggestion. Although with regard to the one-party line a discordant note was heard within the UPC hierarchy the UPC delegates' conference (8-11 June 1968) provided the latest piece of evidence that the country is, in everything but the law, a one-party state. The conference was attended by Nyerere, Kaunda, Arap Moi on behalf of Kenyatta, Mandikali on behalf of Mobutu. The UPC of the conference was not that UPC of 1964 which had to argue about the desirability of the one-party system with the DP and the KY, but nevertheless the DP opposition remained, to which came the dissent by the Hon. A.A. Nekyon from some of the major positions that the Party has taken since 1966 and at the delegates conference. The present circumstances, however, seem to favour the single dominance of the UPC. Notes.