DRC: political return for Vital Kamerhe

Vital Kamerhe.

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The former chief of staff of Félix Tshisekedi resumes formal political activities on Monday after two years of official absence on the political scene.

He will chair today the meeting of the political office of his party, Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC).

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With our correspondent in Kinshasa,

After the tete-a-tete on June 28 with President Félix Tshisekedi, the meeting of this Monday, August 22 extended to members of the UNC and other senior executives will be, for Vital Kamerhe, the first formal political activity since his acquittal. , two months ago, by the Court of Cassation.

This judgment fell like a cleaver had marked the end of a politico-judicial soap opera which had cost the post of chief of staff to the President of the Republic to Vital Kamerhe, 63 years old.

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In 2020, Mr. Kamerhe, who had lowered his ambitions during the 2018 presidential election in favor of Tshisekedi, was sentenced to twenty years in prison on charges of embezzlement of funds allocated to President Tshisekedi's emergency program in power since 2019.

After crossing the desert, it is time to assess the past two years, according to a close collaborator of Kamerhe, suggesting that his master, as in 2018, intends to play a major role in the quest for a new five-year term for Felix Tshisekedi.

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The political arena was transformed while Kamerhe was in prison, but his party kept its place in the ruling coalition with five members in the current government.

At 16 months from the general elections, Vital Kamerhe also plans, from this month of September, a political tour across the country.

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