The DR Congo popular opposition candidate Moïse Katumbi’s Ensemble Pour la Republique party have once again exposed critical points that have not been addressed by the Independent Electoral Commission (CENI).
Regardless, the CENI have continued publication of the fraudulent results pitting incumbent Fèlix Tshisekedi way ahead of Katumbi.
In the latest set of results released, CENI have handed Tshisekedi an unrealistic lead 76.04% from 9,539,315 votes, followed by Moïse Katumbi with 2,078,305 votes, or 16.57%, Martin Fayulu with 559,132 votes, or 4.46%, Adolphe Muzito with 79,997 votes, or 0.64%, and finally Radjabho Tebabho with 60,642 votes, or 0.48%.
However, the Ensemble Pour la Republique have raised important electoral points that have not been cleared and accuse the CENI of forcing the population to accept the results from chaotic electoral process.
“It is not up to the CENI to publish the trends, the CENI’s mission is to announce the results once the envelopes have been collected in the centers and polling stations, and brought back to the compilation centers. All this What is happening is just intended to prepare minds to accept chaos and fraud, which we will not accept,” warned Hervé Diakiese, spokesperson for Ensemble pour la République to the press on Thursday, December 28, 2023.
Diakiese further wondered why the CENI President Dénis Kadima Kazadi has failed to respond to some of the concerns of stakeholders in the electoral process.
“How many polling stations were opened? This is the least we can do for an organization in charge of the electoral process. How is the CENI unable to tell us how many polling stations were opened? How many machines to vote were made available to these offices? We are not even talking about the voting machines found in the hands of Tshisekedist candidates, we are talking about official voting machines. These are questions that neutral observers, who are not political stakeholders in the results of the elections, arise. After more than 7 days since the chaotic organization of these elections in the 4th electoral cycle, the CENI is still unable to provide answers”, underlined Hervé Diakiese.
Asked in an interview by reporters on the exact number of polling stations that had opened among the 75,400 planned after five days of voting, CENI President Dénis Kadima Kazadi said he was unable to give the exact figures due to the difficulties encountered in the field by certain agents of his institution.
