Presidential election in Congo-B: opponent Parfait Kolélas receives support from RDD
Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas (left) and Jean-Jacques Serge Yhombi Opango greet each other after signing the agreement, in Brazzaville, February 27, 2021. © Loïcia Martial / RFI
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The presidential election takes place on March 21 and the campaign officially begins on March 5.
Ranked second in 2016, the 60-year-old opponent Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas is back to battle.
Yesterday, Saturday, February 27, he concluded a government agreement with the Rally for Democracy and Development (RDD) of the late former President Jacques Joachim Yhombi-Opango.
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With our correspondent in Brazzaville,
Loïcia Martial
In the largest room of the congress center, full to the brim, the activists of the Union of Humanist Democrats (UDH-Yuki) of
Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas
, all or almost all dressed in white, greeted the agreement signed before their eyes with the RDD, represented by its interim president, Jean-Jacques Serge Yhombi-Opango who took the floor immediately after signing.
"
Our current alliance logically fits into the register of free and peaceful democratic alternation
", he declared.
Determined more than ever the former minister, gone to the opposition, Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas explained why he was still committed after the failure of 2016. "
I am a candidate to bring change to the Congo
", t -he says.
The candidate of the UDH-Yuki unveiled a social project focused on decentralization and passed instructions to secure the vote to his activists.
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