No white smoke this Friday, July 30, in the process of appointing the chairman of the election commission. Work resumed this morning at the invitation of the President of the Religious Confessions Platform and the President of Cenco, Monsignor Utembi. But the discussions quickly ended. The eight representatives decided to submit a joint report to the President of the National Assembly to explain the reasons for their disagreements.
With our special correspondent in Kinshasa, Sonia Rolley
In front of the press, Monsignor Utembi insists on the importance of the unity of religious confessions: “You see that all eight religious confessions are present,” he insists. This shows enough that we are called to work together; we are an important moral authority in our country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. “
The president of Cenco refuses to give details on how the discussions are progressing. “We are preparing to go and report on our work to whoever it may affect. And only he can give other comments to reserve a way out of this work.”
In this report, the religious communities account for their deviations. For six faith groups out of eight, it was normal to go to the polls in the absence of consensus. Despite accusations of threats and attempts at corruption, they believe that their candidate is still the most competent. Catholics and Protestants, for their part, turn these accusations into a casus belli. They believe that only the report signed by the eight denominations is genuine.
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