Congo-Brazzaville: Kolélas is "ready to take part" in the presidential election of 2021
Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas, leader of the Union of Humanist Democrats (UDH-Yuki) during a press briefing on January 3, 2021 in Brazzaville © Loïcia Martial / RFI
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Unsuccessful candidate for the disputed presidential election of 2016, where he ranked second in the first and only round behind Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas is already ready for the next election, which will be organized no later than March 21, 2021 , according to the constitutional deadlines.
But he is already contesting the reappointment of the members of the Electoral Commission, in particular that of its president Henri Bouka, who is also president of the Supreme Court.
On Sunday January 3, he presented his ambitious project on the effective decentralization of the Congo.
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With our correspondent in Brazzaville,
Loïcia Martial
A little more than two months separate the Congolese from
this presidential election
.
Although he is still awaiting the inauguration of his party, the Union of Humanist Democrats (UDH-Yuki), Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas already has his heart set on this momentous deadline.
“
I am a candidate for my party's candidacy.
I'm ready.
I prepare myself and mentally, I am ready.
It is up to the party to give me the discharge,
”he declared.
He nevertheless deplores the composition of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CNEI).
For him, it is not at all fair: “
It is the same CNEI (which organized the disputed election of 2016, editor's note) which was renewed.
At the head of the CNEI,
we put Henri Bouka
, who is both judge and party because he is also president of the Supreme Court.
It is a refusal of transparency, while the President of the Republic said in his speech on the State of the Nation (December 23, editor's note) that we are going to a transparent and peaceful election.
Will it be transparent without the CNEI having been composed fairly?
», Complained Mr. Kolélas.
Guy-Brice Pafait Kolélas
, member of the government between 2009 and 2015, affirms that "
Congo disease is called the chaotic management of the PCT (Congolese Labor Party), the party in power
".
He then proposed an ambitious decentralization project.
With it, the country will have to go from 12 departments to four decentralized provinces, each with a legal personality and administrative and financial autonomy.
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