Just over 2,000 candidates are on the starting line for the first round of legislative elections, coupled with local elections, on July 10. Among them are many sons of political leaders, ranging from the head of state to the leader of the opposition, including the speaker of the Assembly and other ministers.
With our correspondent in Brazzaville, Loicia Martial
Sitting in a long chair in his office in the 15-year-old Plateau district, Alphonse Ndongo, freelance journalist, economic and political analyst, has an observation about the participation in elections of those who are called “daddy’s boys”.
” Do children want to follow in their parents’ footsteps in order to serve better? If so, so much the better because we need values to serve better so that the country can work tomorrow. Only, we note that it becomes like a kind of familiarization in the management of politics. This is where the problem is “.
The Constitution in force since 2015 opens the doors of politics to young people. They can become presidential candidates at 40 and at 25 for deputy. But, for Alphonse Ndongo, the most motivating reason is elsewhere.
” Politics here in the Congo makes you rich very quickly. One only has to see how certain young people who started from nothing and arrived in government, one has only to see how they exalt signs of wealth. So, it gives good ideas or pretensions to other young people “, he analyzes.
Never have these elections mobilized so many young candidates.