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Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi won the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, announced Thursday the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The result can still be challenged before the Constitutional Court.
"Having obtained validly 7 051 013 votes, or 38.57% of the votes, the elected President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tshisekedi Tshilombo Felix, is proclaimed provisionally," said the President of the CENI, Crow Nangaa.
Felix Tshisekedi will succeed President Joseph Kabila, in power since his father's badbadination in January 2001. The arrival of Tshisekedi to the presidency will be the first peaceful political transition in the largest country Sub-Saharan Africa independence in 1960.
The election result had already been questioned by opposition candidate in second position, Martin Fayulu, who had obtained 34.8% of the votes. In an interview with RFI, Fayulu called his alleged defeat a "coup d'etat électoral".
Although the winner is the son of a historical adversary, he is suspected that he has entered into an alliance with the Kabila clan.
In his victory speech, Tshisekedi paid tribute to Kabila, calling him an important political partner, according to RFI. He also said that he would not be the president of a political organization, nor a tribe, but the president of all Congolese.
France asked for clarification on the results. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the data did not correspond to the conclusions of the Congolese Bishops' Conference, which had followed the vote with 40,000 observers, and spoke of Martin Fayulu's victory in his projections. .
On a cautious tone, Belgium said the results required a detailed badessment of the Security Council's l & # 39; Now the United Nations (UN) in the coming days.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on all parties to remain calm and avoid violence.
The lawsuit has been postponed to three. Since authoritarian leader Joseph Kabila took office at the end of 2016, he should have left office.
Kabila did not show up for these elections, which involved 21 candidates, including the successor chosen by the president, the former Interior Minister, Emmanuel Ramazani Shaday.
The United States had threatened to impose sanctions against any attempt to subvert the "democratic process".
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is rich in minerals such as diamond, coltan, copper, gold and also has great agricultural potential, but the Congolese population lives in a situation of great poverty.
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