Ugandans voted overwhelmingly in support of their country's return to a multiparty system, which was banned for 19 years by a president who argued that he needed to keep tribal divisions in check. According to final results announced Saturday by the Electoral Commission chairman, 92.5 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of allowing multiparty politics after nearly two decades of President Yoweri Museveni's so-called "no-party democracy" in the East African nation. About 47 percent of Uganda's 8.5 million registered voters participated in the referendum Thursday, said the chairman, Badru Kiggundu. No minimum turnout was required to make the referendum valid. |