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In the last two months, Uganda has experienced a surge in the number of political parties ahead of the 2026 general elections. Majority of these are seeking to front candidates in different positions including for president to put an end to Museveni’s 4-decade rule.
Amongst the new political parties include Mpuuga’s Democratic front which he launched together with his four best political friends like Lubega Mukaaku, Abed Bwanika, Mike Mabiike and Moses Kasibante. Of these, Mike Mabiike also owns a party called SDP while Bwanika also owns a party called PDP which he ditched to join NUP in 2020 and now DF in 2025.
The others include Ecological Party of Uganda which recently elected Muhammed Nsereko as it’s president. People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) headed by Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, National Peasants Party headed by Musician Stecia Mayanja, and NEED Party headed by Kabuleta. All these are out with guns brazing to fight Museveni and but understandably also fight fellow opposition parties like UPC, NUP, DP, PPP, ANT, FDC, JEEMA, CP among others.
VIDEO CREDIT: NTV UGANDA
Former Member of parliament for Kawempe South Mubarak Munyagwa also joined the league of political party owners after unveiling his Common Man’s Party whose symbol is a platter commonly known as Lusaniya. To illustrate what his party really stands for, Mubarak Munyagwa and his colleagues shared pilawo in Platters at the event during the launch.
In a dramatic turn of even however, the Electoral Commission has disowned Mubarak Munyagwa’s political party, saying they don’t know him and the Common Man’s Party is not among the 27 political parties on the parties register at the Electoral Commission.
“The Electoral Commission has heard that a group of people in Kampala today met and announced the launching or formation of what they call a new political party. The Commission would like to state that the last and newest political party that has been registered by the EC is the People’s Front for Freedom, no new political party has been registered and issued a certificate of registration as of today 15th July 2025”-says Julius Mucunguzi the Electoral Commission Spokesperson.
Mucunguzi further reiterates that the registration of political parties in Uganda is guided under the law and whoever wishes to open one, know the process of how to register and own their own political party.
“The commission further wishes to inform the public that registration of political parties in Uganda is guided by the law of the Political Parties and Organizations Act 2005 and there’s a detailed process through which anybody who to register a political party in Uganda has to go through to fullfil before they can be issued with a certificate of registration as a fully registered party…”Mucunguzi further says.
This is not the first group of politicians that the Electoral Commission is disowning after disguising as having been registered as a political party. Few months ago, another group under the People Power Front (PPF) also claimed to have launched a political party which they said was a sprinter group from Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) but they were also disowned by the commission.
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