DRC: the indirect ballot project for the 2023 presidential election divides

A woman votes at a polling station in Kinshasa, December 30, 2018. REUTERS / Baz Ratner

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The question of an indirect presidential election in 2023 divides the ruling coalition in the country.

The FCC advocates the election of the president by the deputies, which the UDPS does not want to hear.

The presidential party is supported by the MLC and Ensemble pour la République.

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With our correspondent in Kinashasa

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The initiative comes from the FCC.

The supporters of former President Joseph Kabila have started a reflection: maintain a single round, but it should take place in the second degree.

as in 2006 and 2011 according to the FCC.

This kind of ballot would also be less expensive, believes the Kabila clan.

The UDPS, its ally in the ruling coalition, does not hear it that way.

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 " complains Augustin Kabuya.

For the secretary general of the presidential party, the UDPS is not affected by this approach.

And he wonders: why always look for shortcuts knowing that the question cannot pass even if it were addressed in the

 ?

Moïse Katumbi, leader of the Together for the Republic party, estimates that only the presidential election by direct universal suffrage reassures the population, and costs only $ 400 million.

On the MLC side of Jean-Pierre Bemba, Jacques Djoli, quoted by the online media Africa, believes that Ngoyi Kasanji's proposal is inadequate with the Constitution and that it would endanger democracy.

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