Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni extended his 30-year grip on power after winning with nearly 62% of the votes. Supporters of main opposition candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye who received 35% of the votes and former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi who came in third with less than 2 percent of the vote, claim the results are a "sham". Delays during the voting procedures would have been a deliberate strategy by Museveni supporters, aimed to block people from voting. Dr. Besigye was arrested four times since the elections of 18 February and is now under house arrest for trying to prove the alleged rigged vote. Several clashes between the police and Besigye supporters followed, resulting in multiple arrests. US and EU foreign observers have criticised the election process. The list of the winners for the parliamentary seats who have so far been declared winners is not as interesting as the list of the losers as more familiar names have already lost the elections and the list of the familiar names includes 17 ministers.

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Update 2 March 2016:

Uganda is headed for a Supreme Court battle over the results of the February 18 presidential poll as tensions there continue to climb. Former Prime Minister Mbabazi's lawyers managed to submit their petition to the Supreme Court on the first of March. The petition lays out 28 alleged irregularities including bribery, late arrival of voting materials, inconsistencies with voting cards and election papers the opposition says were pre-checked and stuffed into boxes. Second place finisher Kizza Besigye was not able to get a petition to the courts by the deadline. His camp says repeated arrests and detention by security forces made it impossible for Besigye to file a challenge.

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