They are largely absent from this electoral process: Kabila’s camp boycotted all of the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The presidential, but also the legislative, provincial and partial municipal elections. The FCC, of which the PPRD, Joseph Kabila’s historic party, makes up the majority of the group in the National Assembly, continues to demand a new process and logically rejects the results en bloc.
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With our special correspondents in Kinshasa, Paulina Zidi And Boris Vicith
“ From 2021, we have warned against this process », confides a member of the PPRD, the former presidential party, that of Joseph Kabila. Reasons for this distrust: a lack of confidence in the institutions, the Electoral Commission and the Constitutional Court, which are supposed to supervise these elections.
A total boycott, including voter registration, decided by the one they call the leader, the president of the PPRD and the moral authority of the FCC, the platform created around the ex-president. A political family which claims to have more than 70 elected officials who have remained loyal to the ex-president and who will therefore not be present for the next legislature.
“ We prepare to suffer », confided a few months ago an MP. “ It may be complicated for the next five years, we have to see how we will move forward, particularly financially, but I am confident », Confirms Damase Muba Kitwa, vice-president of the PPRD parliamentary group for a few more days. He also notes that part of the rest of the opposition today joins the positions of his camp by demanding a new election. “ However, we had warned them », he adds.
The current opposition is returning to what we have seen since 2021. Since 2021, we have said that it is necessary to recompose the CENI, recompose the Constitutional Court, recompose the electoral law. All these structures operate in violation of the law. And we must return to legality.
Damase Muba Kitwa, vice-president of the PPRD parliamentary group in the outgoing Parliament