Uganda Political Layout. History of Her Governance. Despite the reintroduction of a multiparty political system in 2005, Uganda's democratic progress has been uneven at best. President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM), which governed the country as a de facto one-party state for 20 years, continue to dominate the political landscape, while opposition political parties struggle to build broad-based constituencies or provide meaningful alternatives to the NRM. Political activism has been on the rise in recent years, but has been hindered by an increasingly restrictive political environment.