In the spotlight: tension within the Congolese political class
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Denis Kadima, the new President of the Independent National Electoral Commission, here in Kinshasa, July 28, 2021. © Sonia Rolley / RFI
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
2 min
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The Céni file remains on the front page of the Kinshasa newspapers.
“
Denis Kadima: Fatshi in front of the Rubicon!
It is on the front page of the newspaper
La République,
which notes that the tension has risen a notch on the Congolese political scene.
For this daily, "
at the base of this tension is the forcing of the National Assembly to impose Denis Kadima at the head of the office of the independent national electoral commission, while the religious confessions had not managed to agree. on a name.
"
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"
Confusion around the endorsement of the office of the CENI
", for its part, reports the newspaper
Forum des As
with a questioning title: "
Abbot Donatien Nshole fears the return to the MPR part-State.
"And
Forum des As
to wonder if" would
the UDPS in power be worshiping today the anti-values that it had constantly denounced under the regimes of Mobutu and Joseph Kabila?
"
The weekly
The Post
speaks of "
The Mbata-Mboso forfeiture, therefore the duo formed by the president of the national assembly and the president of the ad hoc commission set up to study the files of those who were candidates for election. the CENI
”. According to
The Post
, "
the episode of the People's Palace surrounded by security forces right up to the convention hall where deputies and any discordant voices have been jostled and pushed out, is far from constituting the expected outcome of the CENI file
".
"
CENI: the merchants of political crises taken aback
", slices for its part the daily
Le Phare
. This newspaper affirms, “
The delegates of the Cenco and the ECC within the sub-component Religious Confessions believed for more than two months, to have taken hostage the Congolese electoral process for an indefinite period. According to their calculations and those of their political sponsors, the impasse created around the future president of the CENI could not be resolved without them
. "And to conclude:"
The political crisis so hoped for by a certain political class and certain servants of God looks like a wet firecracker.
"
And
Le Soft International
is delighted that Nangaa will finally leave to make way for Denis Kadima.
And this periodical very close to the Sacred Union reminds us: “
Neither the abbot Apolinaire Malumalu Muholungu, nor the pastor Mulunda Nyanga, nor Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo, nobody had made the consensus of the religious leaders.
Never to date,
continues
Le Soft, those in charge of appointing the president of the National Electoral Center had made the slightest compromise
.
"
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