By RFIPalled on 07-08-2019Modified on 07-08-2019 at 15:01

Official consultations for the formation of the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo begin this Wednesday, August 7th. The new Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga will receive the heads of delegations of Cach and the FCC. This is a first step but there will be others.

President Felix Tshisekedi and his Prime Minister have already consulted and received different personalities, since the end of the negotiations on the distribution of posts between the coalitions of the new and the former head of state.

There, one insists on both sides on the formal nature of this last cycle of consultations which should lead to the formation of the government . But it's been seven months that we hear the same words: the composition should be known in the next few days, Sunday, no later than 15, says a close to the president.

A government of 65 members?

First day, Wednesday, Sylvestre Ilunga first receives Jean-Marc Kabund, senior vice president of the Assembly and chief negotiator of Cach and Nehemie Mwilanya, the former cabinet director and coordinator of the FCC Joseph Kabila. A maximum of 10 delegates per coalition is more than the negotiating teams, probably among them are the main contenders.

The head of government should also receive civil society, pending the final lists of both coalitions. The meeting of the day should make it possible to lay down the rules.

Will three names be proposed to the two chiefs of the executive? That's what we would like from Cach. But " the Prime Minister will instruct us ," says one side delegations. 23 positions for the presidential coalition, 42 for the former president. With 65 members, this government will be one of the most plethoric of the DRC, it continues to make few elected for many contenders.

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