While we waited for President Tshisekedi to speak on Friday, the Kinshasa newspapers – almost all of them – mentioned in this week’s deliveries the controversial sword of the new constitutional judges.
“They took the oath … He took note”. It’s on the front page of the newspaper Le Soft International. Service “without certainly the war weakened and the front reassured, on the contrary”, notes the colleague from Soft International. This admission comes three months later, insists the newspaper, describing the atmosphere as a total tohubohu, a confrontational speech “reminiscent of the years of the sovereign national conference”.
On the other hand, Le Maximum twice considers President Tshisekedi and Joseph Kabila Kabange to be “imbued with passions and abundance”. “They look like children on a playground!” Exclaims the journalist from Maximum. On Wednesday, October 21, the ceremony of presentation to the nation and the submission of the three new nominees to the Constitutional Court was anything but a Republican exercise, we can still read in the newspaper talking about non-compliance with Article 10 of the Constitutional Court’s Organic Law, this article provides that such an event must necessarily take place before the institutions of the Presidency of the Republic, the National Assembly, the Senate and the Supreme Judicial Council represented by its office. For Le Maximum, the ceremony took “the form of a meeting with the UDPS, the presidential party”.
In daily Le Phare, Professor Alphonse Ntumba Luaba, former Minister for Human Rights and former Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes, considers, on the contrary, that the incarceration of new constitutional judges is not a problem: “They replace judges who voluntarily or ex officio has resigned by refusing to take the oath of office for their new and high office “And Ntumba Luaba continues in the same newspaper Le Phare:” The new constitutional judges and others in this course have proven competence and I have no doubt that they will bring a lot to this institution “, concludes Professor Ntumba Luaba.
Le Potentiel, another daily, claims that the Congolese political microcosm is in turmoil and that all signs are converging towards an interinstitutional crisis similar to the one that followed the immediate years after independence and caused the coup of President Mobutu.
“FCC KO’d!” exclaims the daily La République about the political frictions observed within the ruling class. From now on, we are in front of a head of state who has imperialism and the fullness of the powers conferred on him in the Constitution, writes this newspaper, which continues: “With justice freed from the greenhouses of the former regime, the President of the Republic can leave its mark without too much fear on the plans of those who until yesterday were its allies. “Republican Conclusion: Remember that the Constitutional Court is strategic for power in the DRC. proclaims the final results, decides in the context of electoral conflicts “.
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