In the spotlight: the case of Jean-Marc Kabund, 1st vice-president of the National Assembly in the DRC
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Kamanda Wa Kamanda Muzembe © Thomas Nicolon
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
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It was the Jean-Marc Kabund affair which occupied the headlines this week.
This is the debate around the resignation of the interim president of the UDPS from the office of the National Assembly announced after a strong intervention by elements of the Republican Guard in his private residence in Kingabwa.
“
How far will Kabund go?
»
Question in the newspaper
Forum des As
which comments on the current crisis within the UDPS, the presidential party. This Kinshasa daily notes (still on the front page) that the first vice-president of the National Assembly was let go by the deputies of the Parliamentary Majority and that the presidents of the parliamentary groups, members of the Sacred Union, recall "
that 'they have only one president, Felix Tshisekedi to whom they reaffirm fidelity, loyalty and attachment
'.
Same concern in
La Prospérité
, another Kinshasa daily: “
How far would the suspense go?
Kabund: will resign, will not resign?
wonders this newspaper which then writes
that Kabund will have succeeded in setting fire to the powder.
Cries of distress mixed with severe disciplinary measures are unleashed
, continues
La Prospérité
which notes:
national deputies and even the federations of the UDPS across the country, have gradually come out of all the usual reservations, preferring to wash dirty linen (… ) on the political agora
”.
Will Kabund cross the red line?
In
Le Phare
, another daily, UDPS: Will Kabund cross the red line? Since a tweet of which he would be the author reported on Friday January 14 of his resignation from the post of 1st Vice-President of the National Assembly, the comments are going well about the will of Jean-Marc Kabund A Kabund to separate from the Head of State, "
moral authority
" of both the UDPS and the Sacred Union of the Nation, the political platform of the Head of State in the process of becoming a platform -electoral form. "
Officially,
adds this newspaper close to the presidential party
, everyone is waiting for confirmation of the rumor in circulation for a few days
".
Get out of here… It's in the daily newspaper
Le Potentiel
under the heading À Loue Voix. What agitation at the UDPS, the presidential party, observes the editorialist who notes: “
A lot of noise, a lot of heat but too little light. The political atmosphere is polluted,
notes the colleague of
Potential
while emphasizing that
even the political cadres of the opposition get involved.
For the editorialist, "
it's quite simply the practice of the famous Ôt
Get out of here, let me go.
All in all, Tshisekedi, the Head of State, appears on this overheated theater as the only director capable of having hateful actors respect both the text and the mimicry, because it is a question of preserving his aura. by 2023
, concludes the editorialist of the newspaper
Le Potentiel
”.
The bi-weekly
Le Maximum
also has the same reading of this situation.
“
This famous Kabund saga is revealing of a deep malaise within the Tshisekedist party where the management of ambitions seems more laborious than ever
”.
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