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 KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan voters lined up in parking lots, village squares and empty fields before dawn Thursday to choose between a leader who has ruled for 20 years and four challengers in the country's first multiparty elections in two decades.
Incumbent Yoweri Museveni and opposition leader Kizza Besigye were the top two candidates heading into Thursday's presidential election. Voters were also electing 284 members of parliament.
The balloting is the first multiparty elections in Uganda since 1980, a step forward after nearly 20 years of Museveni's "no party politics." But the same change to the constitution that allowed the participation of political parties also removed term limits on the president, allowing Museveni, 62, to run as many times as he wishes.
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