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HIS EXCELLENCE, THE HON.
DR. JAMES RWANYARARE

- AUDIO -
"For God & My Country"

Some quotes from the interview of February 17, 2004
where ALEX B. ATUHAIRE talked to the Hon. Dr. James
Rwanyarare. Dr James Rwanyarare, the chairman of the
UPC’s Presidential Policy Commission talks about the
party’s strategy for 2006 and beyond.

What is the UPC specifically focusing on as we move
to 2006?

The focus for UPC has been the same over the past ten
years. It has been to struggle for re-establishment of
multiparty politics. We think this is a fundamental
matter. Our focus for 2006 is in re-organisation and
mobilisation because a lot of things have happened.
Even the population patterns have changed. We need
really to re-organise the whole structure of the party
but that will be tentative because the final arbiter
will be at the Delegates Conference.

.....For that reason we have put up a special committee
headed by Mr Peter Walubiri which will reach out to the
whole country. We do not think that we should focus on
elections as a whole; we think that we should start a
journey and we systematically mark our steps as we move.

Talk about this committee.
It is called the National Organising Committee.
It is made up of 15 members. Mr. Walubiri is chairman
and it has MPs like Patrick Mwonda and
Dr. Okullo Epak.

We have come to know who is our enemy, which is lack of
democracy in the country. We have to fight the
dictatorship together or perish together. President
Museveni says you people do not have a vision to lead the
country. I can talk as a doctor. Museveni is suffering
from some mental disease where one looks at himself as a
paragon. You go on believing in that until you become so
introverted able that you imagine that other people do not
have a mind.

What’s your game plan for 2006? We are fighting very hard
for multiparty politics. We want to go in and fight hard
as apolitical party to win power. But should we fail to
win power but still make a big showing, we are willing to
go into a coalition with other political forces to form a
government. That coalition is forming slowly. We are
building confidence among ourselves

Who is the UPC candidate for 2006? That will be decided by
the Delegate’s Conference if there are multiparty
politics. But we have got many people who have expressed
interests in standing as candidates. I have expressed that
interest myself. I think Prof. Yona Kanyomozi has. Aggrey
Awori...to stand, I don't know if Cecilia Ogwal still wants
to stand. But all these, we would subject them to the
party members to select the best. There is no question of
anybody imposing himself as UPC candidate.

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