 Mbabazi served as the member of parliament for the Kinkiizi West constituency in Kanungu District, a position held from 1996 until 2016, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Presidency.He was born in Mparo Village, Rukiga County, in present-day Kabale District, on 16 January 1949.He attended two of the most prominent educational institutions in Uganda during both the colonial and post-colonial periods