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"We are not going to boycott the elections because we know from the beginning that the plan of the majority is to push the opposition to boycott the elections," said Delly Sesanga, a close badociate of the opponent in exile and declared candidate Moïse Katumbi
Meeting the time for a joint statement, presented Monday to the press, the opposition demands elections "free, democratic and transparent."
These elections must be done " without the voting machine, without the candidacy of President (Joseph) Kabila and without the ten million voters without fingerprints registered on the electoral lists, "said Eve Bazaïba, the spokesperson of another candidate, Jean- Pierre Bemba, recently acquitted by the International Criminal Court
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In total, five opposition forces were reacting President Kabila 's speech to the nation on Thursday during which he confirmed the holding of elections on December 23, without saying anything about his political future
M. Kabila has been in power since 2001, his second five-year term ended on December 20, 2016 in a climate of violence. The Constitution forbids him to represent himself.
This declaration was also signed by the historic opposition party, Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) of the former Speaker of the National Assembly Vital Kamerhe and Opposition Dynamics of opponent Martin Fayulu
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Nominations for the presidential election in the DRC are scheduled from July 25 to August 8.
A group of Catholic laity has scheduled three marches in early August to ask President Kabila to state clearly that it will not compete a third term
The DRC has never known a peaceful transfer of power since its independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960.
With AFP
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