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January 2021 presidential election. He received 337,589 (3.26) behind Yoweri Museveni 6,042,898 (58.38%) the winner of the election. Appearing before the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee investigating cases of electoral violence during the election, he complained of harassment and intimidation and reported that he was arrested more than 40 times during the two months campaign and had been punched in the stomach by a security officer. On 11 January, less than three days before the election, he was arrested by the police for traffic violation after his driver swerved off the road, drove through the bush and emerged on the road a few meters after a barricade mounted by the police to prevent them from going to campaign in Mpigi Town to the cheers of onlookers.
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election. He was elected to the parliament in 2001 and chaired
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Amuriat became politically active in 1994 and had his first electoral contest in the
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