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The formation of the new government by Felix Tshisekedi is closely monitored for signs that his predecessor, Kabila, will continue to dominate the country's politics. Kabila, on the left, is shown here pbading power in Tshisekedi
in January. By TONY KARUMBA (AFP / File)
Supporters of former DR Congo leader Joseph Kabila swept the governor's elections in the troubled Central African state, exerting additional pressure on the new president Felix Tshisekedi.
The coalition of the Common Front of Congo (FCC) Kabila has already won a comfortable majority in both houses of Parliament and at the provincial bademblies in the polls on December 30.
FCC candidates have now won 16 of the 22 governorates, according to provisional results announced Wednesday by the electoral commission.
Among the winners are Zoe, Kabila's brother, elected governor of Tanganyika province, in the south-east of the country.
The new governor of Kinshasa is also a member of the FCC, Gentiny Ngobila.
He is the former governor of Mai-Ndombe province, in the south-west of the country, where the violence in December killed at least 500 people in the city of Yumbi, according to the United Nations.
The Minister of Human Rights, Marie-Ange Mushobekwa, recently said that Ngobila would be confronted with questions after the bloodbath.
Tshisekedi's party, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) and its allies, won only one governorship, in his home province, Kasai-Oriental.
Tshisekedi was sworn in on Jan. 24 after bitterly disputed elections, sown in fraud charges, replacing Kabila who relinquished power after 18 tumultuous years at the helm of the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa.
The UDPS is working on the constitution of a coalition government with that of Kabila.
The formation of the new government is closely monitored for signs that Kabila will continue to dominate the country's politics.
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