On the front page: “Congolity”, numerous reactions to a draft law on nationality
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The national deputy Nsingi Pululu (on the right) and the former candidate for the presidency of the Republic, Noël Tshiani Muadiamvita, at the National Assembly, Thursday, July 8, 2021, during the tabling of the bill.
© Noël Tshiani Muadiamvita Twitter account
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
6 mins
Publicity
“
Congolity: the text of Noël Tshiani on Mboso's table
”, announces the daily
Le Phare
. According to this newspaper, the President of the National Assembly received this
nationality bill on
Thursday, July 8
from the
hands of MP Nsingi Pululu. This is a text developed by the 2018 presidential candidate Noël Tshiani and which will be discussed during the next parliamentary session, explains
Le Phare
.
Under the title “
Congolity: preserving living together
”, the daily
L'Avenir
explains: “
Through this bill, the Honorable Nsingi Pululu affirms that it gives everyone, everywhere, the enjoyment of their human rights. Congolese while regulating access to certain charges at the top of the state. The DRC is open to everyone, but you have to be born to a Congolese father and mother,
”
reports the newspaper
L'Avenir,
which quotes Nsingi Pululu. According to this same newspaper, there are those who index in this bill a political strategy which aims to exclude potential candidates from the presidential race of 2023.
On the front page of
La République
, another daily: "
Elections 2023: the UN rejects congolity
". "
All the subterfuges mounted by the power in place in connection with the upcoming elections do not go unnoticed in the eyes of national opinion and the international community
", writes this daily which adds: "
The special representative of the SG of the UN in the DRC said it aloud on July 7 before the Security Council.
Bintou Keita warned against the propensity to exclude possible candidates on the basis of a vague Congolity.
"
The tri-weekly
AfricaNews
, meanwhile, asserts that Monusco and the United States are saying no to Congolity. "
The international community does not have a short memory"
, one can read in the newspaper which explains: "
She knows that, in the past, the divisive debate on nationality had done enormous damage in Côte d'Ivoire. While this scourge is re-germinating dangerously in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
continues the tri-weekly
AfricaNews
,
this international community undertakes to dissuade its initiators
. "
Other headlines in the press, in
AfricaNews
again: “
The IGF Alingete audits the payroll of the presidency of the Republic
. "A first since the advent of President Félix Tshisekedi, notes the tri-weekly before adding that Alingete has confirmed having investigated and established facts of mismanagement of Covid-19 funds and that the file has already been sent to justice.
Finally, return to the daily
Le Phare
: “
Beyond the lifting of Matata's immunities.
What fate for Thambwe Muamba, José Makila, Kimbuta, Bakonga? ...
”asks the newspaper.
The lifting of the immunities of Senator Augustin Matata Ponyo, delivered by the Senate office to the prosecutor of the Constitutional Court, would it herald a tsunami likely to precipitate other senators in the abyss of justice?
Response from the newspaper
Le Phare
: “
Many observers believe it, especially in view of the court cases pending for years.
"
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