By RFIPissed on 03-16-2019 Modified 16-03-2019 at 01:59
After the Parliament and the provincial assemblies, the Common Front for the Congo is given largely winner of the senatoriales organized on March 15th. Ex-President Kabila's platform would grab the majority of seats, including in the strongholds of the ruling coalition. What anger the UDPS.
" Our MPPs must all resign and give way to their substitutes! Augustin Kabuya, one of the Deputy Secretaries General of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), speaks of treason. Along with other party leaders, they spent the afternoon on Friday talking to "fighters" - the name the party activists - threatening. Lumumba Boulevard in Kinshasa was not recommended for motorists at the height of Limeté for a few hours.
The base of the UDPS does not include the humiliation suffered in senatorial elections. No senator for the party of President Felix Tshisekedi in the capital Kinshasa. Even in the provinces known bastion of this party, like the Kasai Oriental, the results were catastrophic.
For its part, the Common Front for Congo, the political platform formed around former President Jospeh Kabila, is pleased to have secured " a large majority in Parliament ." Bahati Lukwebo, Evariste Boshab, André Kimbuta are among the elected FCC. And for some analysts, it's a danger to the survival of power.
Senate elections 2019.
The #FCC warmly congratulates the elected Senators as well as all the provincial deputies who have observed the discipline and cohesion recommended by his moral authority, Comrade Joseph #Kabila Kabange.
All for Congo! pic.twitter.com/E6X9gfENhX
Well before these elections, suspicions of corruption circulated in the country. And some candidates, including Professor Mabi Mulumba, withdrew from the race.
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