In the Democratic Republic of Congo, former President Joseph Kabila continues his consultations. He convened deputies and senators for Kingakati on October 29. The goal is to identify a strategy while his ally, Felix Tshisekedi, Congolese head of state, is looking for a new majority to create a “holy union” that can allow him to apply his decisions. The coalition of the former president, the FCC, remains in the majority in both chambers. But in the ranks of the former presidential party, the PPRD, they fear corruption among deputies.
With our special correspondent in Kinshasa, Sonia Rolley
Before Joseph Kabila, it was the Permanent Secretary of the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, who received the National Deputies on 28 October. The contents of his statement were revealed in detail last night by the magazine Jeune Afrique. The former presidential candidate told them he knew some of them had already been heard by Felix Tshisekedi’s team. “Its aim is first and foremost to isolate the PPRD,” he told them, and then to marginalize the Common Front of the Congo (FCC).
“We can not measure up to Joseph Kabila’s financial means ”
This fear stems from the fact that the former presidential party now has 56 deputies, when in 2006 they were 111. However, the creation of ever-larger coalitions to the detriment of the PPRD itself was one of the strategies used by Joseph Kabila. during his two periods. He withdrew from the ranks of the opposition, including the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) itself. What the near guard fears for the former head of state is to see infidelity in its ranks of parties that today it qualifies as “food parties”.
Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary even warned his deputies, assuring that if they received money, they would come from the public treasury. “Take money, but do not sign anywhere,” he even warned.
According to President Tshisekedi, it is assured that the head of state will not negotiate himself, that he will above all listen and assess his room for maneuver, that it is not a matter of allocating positions. “The PPRD accuses us of doing what it has always done, but we will not do it, we cannot measure up to the financial means that Joseph Kabila has had,” says one of his relatives.
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