The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), founded on December 16, 2004, is the main opposition party in Uganda. FDC was founded as an umbrella body called Reform Agenda by that time,mostly for disenchanted former members and followers President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement. Its chairman, Kizza Besigye, formerly a close ally of Museveni, was presidential candidate in the 2001 and 2006 presidential elections.
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