DRC: what task awaits Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, newly appointed informant?
Some 3,500 employees of the Bahati group, named after Senator Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, are threatened with losing their jobs.
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Senator Modeste Bahati Lukwebo will enter at the beginning of next week at the heart of his mission: to identify a new majority coalition in the National Assembly.
The former pillar of Joseph Kabila, who has approached Felix Tshisekedi in recent months, has at most two months to present a report to the head of state.
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His name was on the shortlist.
Some of his relatives even assert that
Modeste Bahati Lukwebo
had started to consult the various political forces before being officially designated by Félix Tshisekedi as an informant.
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“
He's just going to perfect the work he had already started behind the scenes,
” says one of his close associates.
At the Presidency of the Republic, the relatives of Félix Tshisekedi explain that everything will go quickly.
The goal is to get the job done as soon as possible.
“
If possible, the consultation report should be filed before the end of the first month,
” says an adviser to
Félix Tshisekedi
.
For the moment, Bahati Lukwebo is setting up a mini-cabinet whose office will be installed, according to some indiscretions, in a hotel in the capital.
A communication cell will even be set up.
A program is being made.
The informant plans to meet everyone, and even the Common Front for the Congo (FCC), while some of his executives have contested the very principle of his appointment.
Before consulting all the political forces, Modeste Bahati Lukwebo first started by trying to convince the national deputies of his own platform, who had chosen last year to remain in the political family of Joseph Kabila, to join him.
It only remains for him to convince four elected officials to reconstitute the group of 41 national deputies, explains a member of his cabinet.
“Modeste Bahati Lukwebo is a very meticulous person, very methodical in the way he works.
(...) His personality will serve to identify and consolidate this process of sacred union.
"
Trésor Kibangula, analyst at the Congo Study Group (GEC) at New York University
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