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Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi has returned to Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to launch his campaign to replace long-time president and his enemy, Joseph Kabila, in the December elections. .
"We will go with the people and we will win," Tshisekedi, the 55-year-old son of the late Etienne Tshisekedi, who faces opposition from the DRC, said on Tuesday.
He promised to deploy teams of observers to fight against electoral fraud, while his teammate Vital Kamerhe, a former speaker of parliament, said on Twitter that the duo had made a "winning ticket".
Tens of thousands of supporters of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), Tshisekedi's main opposition party, and the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) of Kamerhe were on the spot to welcome them upon their arrival at Kinshasa airport.
According to an agreement reached Friday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, if Tshisekedi wins the presidency in the elections of December 23, he will appoint Kamerhe as prime minister.
Kamerhe, who ran against Kabila in 2011, will be Tshisekedi's campaign manager.
The two men withdrew from an agreement reached in Geneva earlier this month in which seven opposition parties have united around a common candidate in order to increase their chances of winning. victory.
Their surprise choice, the little-known MP Martin Fayulu, will now fight against Tshisekedi, as well as former Interior Minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, the successor chosen by Kabila.
Tshisekedi, who does not enjoy the same degree of popularity as his father, told the AFP news agency last year that he was winning the presidency, he would create a "truth and reconciliation commission" "charged with holding Kabila to account, while allowing him to stay in the country.
He promised to restore the rule of law, fight against the "gangrene" of corruption and restore peace in the east of the vast, mineral-rich, mineral-rich country of Central Africa. the dispute.
Fayulu enjoys support from opposition heavyweights Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moise Katumbi, both of whom are banned from running.
Bemba, a former militia leader and deputy chairman of Kabila from 2003 to 2006, was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Court in June. He subsequently registered for the elections, but his candidacy was later rejected by the election officials.
Formerly presented as an opposition candidate by consensus, the great businessman Katumbi, who lives in exile in Belgium, has been accused of causing mercenaries to overthrow Kabila and to be sentenced in absentia for real estate fraud .
Shadary, a former minister of the Radical Interior, is one of 15 Congolese nationals facing punishment from the European Union, accused of violating human rights. man between December 2016 and the beginning of 2018.
In all, 21 candidates are enrolled in the race to replace Kabila, 47, who has ruled the country since the badbadination of his father, President Laurent-Desire Kabila, in 2001.
Kabila's second and last elected term came to an end nearly two years ago, but he remained in office thanks to a clause of continued constitutionality.
This unstable and poverty-stricken nation has never experienced a peaceful transition of power since Belgium's independence in 1960.
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