DRC: deputies summoned to specify their membership of the majority or the opposition
(illustration) The People's Palace, building of the Congolese Parliament (DRC) on the occasion of the parliamentary re-entry in 2016. RFI / Sonia Rolley
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, members of the pro-Kabila FCC coalition have slammed the door of the Palais du Peuple and are threatening not to return.
They blame the provisional office of the National Assembly for exceeding its powers.
A reproach which relates to the motion of censure filed yesterday against the government of Sylvestre Ilunga.
According to its initiators, it gathered 301 signatures.
A reproach which also relates to the procedure launched in order to politically reconfigure the Assembly and to determine the membership of the deputies to the majority or to the opposition.
Why does this procedure annoy the FCC?
What is the pro-Kabila coalition at risk?
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with our special correspondent in Kinshasa,
Sonia Rolley
For the FCC deputies, political affiliation to the majority or to the opposition is determined once, at the start of the legislature: this is what the regulations of the National Assembly stipulate ... However, after the legislative elections of 2018, the pro-Kabila coalition was recognized as having an absolute majority ...
Today, supporters of the Sacred Union say they have stolen this majority from the FCC.
As proof, according to them, the more than 300 signatures collected by the motion of censure filed against the government of pro-Kabila Sylvestre Ilunga.
Individual forms that divide
But this majority does not seem so easy to find.
The president of the provisional office of the Assembly announced yesterday that forms had to be completed by each deputy and that they have until Saturday to say which party and which political camp they belong to.
A process that reveals the level of tensions within political parties and parliamentary groups, which are divided on this question of membership in the Sacred Union, and not only within the ranks of the FCC.
Friday evening, there was also uncertainty within parties close to former governor Moïse Katumbi and former vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba.
And this, while negotiations continue between the two opponents and President Tshisekedi.
►Also read: in the DRC, discussions around the Katumbi and Bemba movements to join the Sacred Union
But whatever the political edges, party leaders said they were embarrassed by the use of individual forms, synonymous with a new form of poaching, when until now, political groups and parliamentary groups were the privileged interlocutors of the government. office of the Assembly.
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