In the DRC, voter registration operations continue in the country, in view of the elections scheduled for December 20. Friday, April 7, the opposition criticized the electoral commission, the Ceni. She accuses the electoral body of enlisting minors, foreigners and also denounces the existence of fictitious centers and the possession of enrollment kits by armed groups or even individuals.
The opposition claims to have detected serious breaches, incidents and irregularities which it says, “ no longer reassure for the holding of peaceful elections in the DRC. The Lamuka coalition led by Marin Fayulu calls as urgently as possible for a ” stakeholder meeting for corrective action “.
” Doubt »
For Jean-Félix Senga, representative of the coordination of electoral operations in Lamuka, interviewed by our correspondent in the DRC, Pascal Mulegwa“ Mr Denis Kadima (the president of the Ceni, Editor’s note) creates doubt in the minds of the Congolese when he claims to have allocated the fund provided for the ballot in the operation of identification and registration of voters and not to have received the money from the government since October 2022. »
” Nothing reassures »
” Coel reiterates its demands to the Ceni: give the overall cost of the current electoral process; given what the Ceni has achieved since its installation, nothing reassures that it is able to organize transparent, impartial and peaceful elections in the DRC. We demand as urgently as possible a meeting between stakeholders to evaluate the work carried out and decide consensually on the corrective measures. We demand the presence of observers from the African Union, those from the European Union and those from the United States of America to ensure the neutrality or not of the CENI concludes Jean-Félix Senga.
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