United Democratic Forces of Rwanda

The United Democratic Forces of Rwanda (French: Forces Democratiques Unifiées, FDU-INKINGI) is a coalition of Rwandan opposition groups.

United Democratic Forces of Rwanda

Forces Democratiques Unifiées
ChairpersonVictoire Ingabire Umuhoza
Founded29 April 2006
IdeologyLiberal democracy
ColorsRed, green
Website
fdu-rwanda.com

History

The party was established on 29 April 2006 as an alliance of the Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda (RDR), Action for Impartial International Justice in Rwanda, the Democratic Forces for Resistance and the Rwandan Democratic Alliance, with RDR leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza elected President of the UDF.[1]

Having been formed in exile, the alliance's leadership returned to Rwanda in January 2010 and applied to be registered in order to field candidates in the presidential elections later in the year. However, the alliance was prevented from registering and Ingabire was arrested.[2]

gollark: I don't know if the people designing electoral systems actually did think of voting systems which are popular now and discard them, but it's not *that* much of a reason to not adopt new ones.
gollark: There are plenty of things in, say, maths, which could have been thought up ages ago, and seem stupidly obvious now, but weren't. Such as modern place value notation.
gollark: Obvious things now may just not have been then.
gollark: Hindsight bias exists.
gollark: As I said, a REALLY bad one would be allocating the vote randomly. This satisfies almost nobody, which makes it a "good compromise" by your definition, but it does that because it has tons of flaws.

References
  1. Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda New Times, 3 October 2007
  2. Freedom in the World 2011: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, Freedom House, p559
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