Tshisekedi makes changes in ruling coalition liaison committee

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Félix Tshisekedi has changed some members of the team of Cap for Change (Cach) - the political platform he heads -, who participate in the monitoring committee of the coalition agreement he signed with the Common Front to Joseph Kabila's Congo (FCC). With these changes, the president, according to his entourage, would like to breathe new life into discussions with Camp Kabila.

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With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Patient Ligodi

These changes within the monitoring committee of the coalition agreement come at a time when the two political platforms are fighting for the control of certain institutions of the country such as the Constitutional Court .

The President of the Republic has dismissed Vidye Tshimanga, his special advisor in charge of strategic issues, who is moving further and further from his closed circle, according to the entourage of the Head of State.

The most significant changes concern Jean-Marc Kabund and Augustin Kabuya, respectively interim president and secretary general of the UDPS, the presidential party. Perceived as too radical, they are not definitively discarded, but must, for the moment, leave room for other negotiators.

Among those who will continue negotiations in this period of tension between the two political forces in power, there is Nicolas Kazadi, the itinerant ambassador of the President of the Republic. He worked in the shadows. He will now take an active part in the discussions.

There is also Thethe Kabwa Kabwe, currently in Felix Tshisekedi's team of security advisers. It is considered to be one of the transmission belts between Félix Tshisekedi and Joseph Kabila. A lot of communication between the two partners goes through him.

There is also MPP Peter Kazadi who was already at the last FCC-CACH meeting. Kitenge Yezu, the high representative of the Head of State, remains in the team of Cap for the Change.

The other major observation, faced with this new team, is the absence of the delegates of the UNC, the party of Vital Kamerhe, the chief of staff of Félix Tshisekedi, condemned to "20 years of forced labor" for misappropriation of public funds.

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