Ugandan singer Bobi ワイン 計画(する)s to run for 大統領,/社長 in 2021

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan pop 星/主役にする and 対立 人物/姿/数字 Bobi ワイン said Monday he will challenge longtime 大統領 Yoweri Museveni in a 2021 選挙 "on に代わって of the people."

But ワイン, whose real 指名する is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, said he is 関心d about his safety after what he believes was an 試みる/企てる on his life last August. His driver was 発射 dead in his car after 抗議する人s threw 石/投石するs at the 大統領,/社長's motorcade.

ワイン's 逮捕(する) at the time 誘発するd 抗議するs in Uganda's 資本/首都, Kampala. The 37-year-old said he is fearful of 害(を与える) from running for 大統領,/社長 because "there has never been a 脅し to this 政権 like the 脅し we 提起する/ポーズをとる to it today as a 世代."

"I live every day as it comes, not 存在 sure of the next day," ワイン said in an interview with The Associated 圧力(をかける). "I am not blind to the fact that the 政権 wants me dead and wants me dead as soon as possible."

当局 have 繰り返して 否定するd ワイン is 存在 的d.

As the leader of a popular movement known as "People 力/強力にする," ワイン has 逮捕(する)d the imagination of many who want to see the 出口 of Museveni, a U.S. 同盟(する) on 地域の 安全 who has held 力/強力にする since 1986 and looks 始める,決める to 捜し出す a sixth 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語.

Pop star-turned-opposition lawmaker Bobi Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is seen while giving an interview to Associated Press at his home,Magere in Kampala, Uganda Monday, July 15, 2019. Bobi Wine, Uganda's pop star-turned-opposition leader, says he will challenge longtime President Yoweri Museveni in polls set for 2021, but Wine, says he is concerned about his safety.(AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Pop 星/主役にする-turned-対立 国会議員 Bobi ワイン, whose real 指名する is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is seen while giving an interview to Associated 圧力(をかける) at his home,Magere in Kampala, Uganda Monday, July 15, 2019. Bobi ワイン, Uganda's pop 星/主役にする-turned-対立 leader, says he will challenge longtime 大統領 Yoweri Museveni in 投票s 始める,決める for 2021, but ワイン, says he is 関心d about his safety.(AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

ワイン said his 目的(とする) ahead of the 選挙 is "to multiply myself in さまざまな young men and women, so that there are as many Bobi ワインs as possible."

Uganda has never 証言,証人/目撃するd a 平和的な 移転 of 力/強力にする since the East African country 伸び(る)d independence from Britain in 1962.

"力/強力にする has been taken away from the people by those that (権力などを)行使する guns, and that's what we want to put an end to through the 投票(する)," he said.

ワイン first (機の)カム to 国家の prominence in 2017 when, as an 独立した・無所属 候補者, he won 選挙 as a 国会議員 代表するing a 選挙区/有権者 近づく Kampala. He has since 首尾よく (選挙などの)運動をするd for other 対立 候補者s, raising his profile as a leader and attracting 激励 to run for 大統領,/社長.

ワイン is "a symbol," a 可能性のある catalyst for change in a country where many young people are 失業 and angry over 公式の/役人 汚職, said Mwambutsya Ndebesa, history lecturer at Uganda's Makerere U niversity. "He can still be symbolically a game changer in a system where the political space has been 狭くするd."

Yet the singer's 立候補 comes with 多重の challenges, 含むing 限られた/立憲的な 適切な時期s to 持つ/拘留する 決起大会/結集させるs or 行う/開催する/段階 concerts. Police violently 失敗させる/負かすd his 最近の 試みる/企てるs to 持つ/拘留する public events, 解雇する/砲火/射撃ing 弾丸s and 涙/ほころび gas. 当局 主張する such 活動/戦闘 is necessary ーするために 保護する public order.

ワイン also 直面するs 背信 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s stemming from his 申し立てられた/疑わしい 役割 in the 出来事/事件 in which the 大統領,/社長's 軍用車隊 was attacked with 石/投石するs. 検察官,検事s 追加するd 付加 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s of annoying the 大統領,/社長 over that 出来事/事件. He also is 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d with the 罪/違反 of disobeying statutory 当局 after he led a demonstration against a new 税金 的ing social マスコミ. He 否定するs all the 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s.

ワイン would be ineligible to run for 大統領,/社長 if he were to be 罪人/有罪を宣告するd of any of those 罪,犯罪s.

"We know that the 政権 is going to try anything within their reach to 封鎖する us from contesting," ワイン said.

Museveni, who is 74 and remains popular の中で some Ugandans, is 推定する/予想するd to run again after 議会 passed 法律制定 除去するing a 条項 in the 憲法 that 妨げるd anyone over 75 from 持つ/拘留するing the 大統領/総裁などの地位.

As the 法案 was 存在 審議d, 安全 職員/兵員 during one 大混乱/混沌とした 開会/開廷/会期 entered the 議会の 議会 and roughed up 対立 国会議員s, 含むing ワイン, who had been trying to 延期する a procedural 投票(する).

The 大統領,/社長 告発する/非難するs ワイン and other 対立 人物/姿/数字s of trying to 誘惑する young people into deadly 暴動ing.

Museveni's party, which 支配するs the 国家の 議会, has 是認するd him as its 単独の 候補者 for the next 選挙. The 対立 is divided, with 退役軍人 対立 人物/姿/数字s frequently attacking each other in public.

Although ワイン's rise as a possible 大統領の 競争相手 has energized the 対立, it also has exposed 不和s の中で the 対立 人物/姿/数字s who hope to take 力/強力にする after Museveni.

As ワイン's stature rose, te nsions grew between him and Kizza Besigye, a four-time 大統領の 候補者 who has been Museveni's most serious 選挙 対抗者. Besigye was 非難するd by ワイン's 支持者s after he 示唆するd that the singer was not yet ready to become 大統領,/社長, 強調するing how difficult it will be for the 対立 to 部隊 against Museveni.

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Pop star-turned-opposition lawmaker Bobi Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is seen while giving an interview to Associated Press at his home,Magere in Kampala, Uganda Monday, July 15, 2019. Bobi Wine, Uganda's pop star-turned-opposition leader, says he will challenge longtime President Yoweri Museveni in polls set for 2021, but Wine, says he is concerned about his safety.(AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Pop 星/主役にする-turned-対立 国会議員 Bobi ワイン, whose real 指名する is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is seen while giving an interview to Associated 圧力(をかける) at his home,Magere in Kampala, Uganda Monday, July 15, 2019. Bobi W ine, Uganda's pop 星/主役にする-turned-対立 leader, says he will challenge longtime 大統領 Yoweri Museveni in 投票s 始める,決める for 2021, but ワイン, says he is 関心d about his safety.(AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Pop star-turned-opposition lawmaker Bobi Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is seen while giving an interview to Associated Press at his home, in Magere in Kampala, Uganda, Monday, July 15, 2019. Bobi Wine, Uganda's pop star-turned-opposition leader, says he will challenge longtime President Yoweri Museveni in polls set for 2021. But Wine, says he is concerned about his safety.(AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Pop 星/主役にする-turned-対立 国会議員 Bobi ワイン, whose real 指名する is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is seen while giving an interview to Associated 圧力(をかける) at his home, in Magere in Kampala, Uganda, Monday, July 15, 2019. Bobi ワイン, Uganda's pop 星/主役にする-turned-対立 leader, says he will challenge longtime 大統領 Yoweri Museveni in 投票s 始める,決める for 2021. But ワイン, says he is 関心d about his safety. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Pop star-turned-opposition lawmaker Bobi Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is seen while giving an interview to Associated Press at his home,Magere in Kampala, Uganda Monday, July 15, 2019. Bobi Wine, Uganda's pop star-turned-opposition leader, says he will challenge longtime President Yoweri Museveni in polls set for 2021, but Wine, says he is concerned about his safety.(AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

Pop 星/主役にする-turned-対立 国会議員 Bobi ワイン, whose real 指名する is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, is seen while giving an interview to Associated 圧力(をかける) at his home,Magere in Kampala, Uganda Monday, July 15, 2019. Bobi ワイン, Uganda's pop 星/主役にする-turned-対立 leader, says he will challenge longtime 大統領 Yoweri Museveni in 投票s 始める,決める for 2021, but ワイン, says he is 関心d about his safety.(AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)

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