The appointment of Denis Kadima, as president of the Electoral Commission, which has just been approved by the National Assembly, is causing controversy,

A large part of the Congolese political class accuses him of being too close to President Tshisekedi, who is seeking a second term in 2023. The problem is

Afrikarabia is that Felix Tshisekedi had only bad solutions in front of him in the face of the outcry raised by the Kadima candidacy.

By validating it, he opens an open crisis with the FCC of Joseph Kabila, Lamuka of Martin Fayulu and Adolphe Muzito, but also with some of his allies of the Sacred Union: Ensemble de Moïse Katumbi and the MLC of Jean-Pierre Bemba.

But above all, Félix Tshisekedi risks alienating the very powerful Catholic Church and the Protestants, who both rejected Denis Kadima.

Conversely, if the Head of State orders his majority to reject the name of Kadima, Félix Tshisekedi would then quarrel with the six (other) denominations who voted for this electoral expert, internationally recognized. 

 therefore opens a troubled institutional period just over two years of a very uncertain and expected presidential election,

Afrikarabia. The 'depoliticization' of the CENI has now become one of the main demands of the opposition to Felix Tshisekedi. The political crisis is also taking a new turn for Félix Tshisekedi's allies within the Sacred Union. With in the foreground, the Ensemble party of Moïse Katumbi. The former governor of Katanga, who is targeting the 2023 presidential election, strongly contested the appointment of Denis Kadima

Tshisekedi is opposing almost all of the country's living forces. (…) By ratifying the choice of Denis Kadima at the head of the CENI yesterday at the end of a process marred by multiple irregularities, the National Assembly, controlled by relatives of the Congolese president, has only replayed the scenario of 2015 when Joseph Kabila brought Corneille Naanga to the head of the institution. The rest is known,

Congo Liberated.

Rigged elections which allowed, at the end of a -'deal ', Mr. Tshisekedi, who came far behind Martin Fayulu, to don the presidential scarf.

Will the 2023 presidential election be of the same ilk?

With the designation of Kadima, the DRC is gradually taking the path.

It is the awareness of this umpteenth electoral catastrophe announced which made react yesterday, in a rare concert of unanimity, a large majority of the leaders of the country, in the political class as within the civil society. 

it smacks of the vigil of arms in all staffs. Martin Fayulu calls for a 'patriotic front' for actions against (what he calls) the 'fatshist dictatorship'. (…) If he no longer hides his disappointment at a platform of which he is still a member, Moïse Katumbi is eagerly awaited on 'what to do?'. With his troops in the National Assembly, his notoriety in the real country and his entry into the world of world leaders, the Chairman is at a crossroads.

 it is not excluded,

Le Forum des As, that Kinshasa relives processions of walkers-priors.

(…) And keen on street actions, activists of citizen movements, not soluble in the political alchemy in power, would not be asked to swell the ranks of the demonstrators. 

President Tshisekedi has great responsibility in the face of history.

Before confirming Denis Kadima as president of the CENI, he should measure all the consequences of such a decision, at the risk of creating the conditions for a post-electoral crisis that would do neither the DRC nor him honor. -same.

Unless in his eyes, the essential is the guarantee of his re-election as head of state (…).

But the whole point is not to put a foil at the head of the CENI, to ensure its unfailing loyalty.

The best,

Le Pays, would rather be to clear the path of an electoral victory as clear as it is dazzling to guard against the uncertain aftermath of a contestable and contested triumph.