The rift continues between President Tshisekedi’s camp and his predecessor Joseph Kabila. One of the battlefields is the Federation of Congo Businesses (FEC) and the election of the chief. A relative of the former head of state, Albert Yuma, has been at the helm since 2005. The only candidate, he was re-elected chairman of the board on November 26, but the prime minister suspended his election to the great concern of the administration and the main members of the employers. A new election will take place on Wednesday.
It is the Prime Minister who announced that this election will be held, it will take place in the meeting room of the Board of the Federation of Congo Enterprises (FEC), in the presence of legal officials and candidate witnesses. For the second election, there is again only one candidate, Dieudonne Kasembo Nyembo, managing partner of Gecotrans and chairman of the SME Commission at FEC.
He was one of two candidates nominated in the first election and challenged it. To his opponents, he is close to President Félix Tshisekedi as a parachute to replace Albert Yuma, the head of Gecamines, known for being close to his predecessor.
“It looks like an arm wrestling”
The FEC’s board rejected the Prime Minister’s decision, given that it was not within its competence to interfere in its internal affairs. Its Secretary-General had refused to follow up on the request to organize the new election.
The management of the administrators of the Congolese employers wondered on Tuesday night whether the Prime Minister would succeed in organizing it in the FEC’s buildings or even if the decision-making power would be achieved, aware that a majority is required to vote for more than a hundred members. On the side of the Congolese Presidency, we were also expected. “It sounds like a sport called arm wrestling“, Recognized a relative of President Tshisekedi.
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