2023-12-26 09:41:54
(Opinion)
The elections did indeed take place on December 20, 2023 throughout the country, despite incidents due to incivility, technical breakdowns and the late opening of some polling stations. The results were displayed polling station by polling station. The internet was not cut.
Before the vote, forecasts predicted a catastrophe. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, certain opponents and pastors of revival churches had predicted that elections would not be held on December 20, the constitutional deadline. Other opponents predicted electoral fraud. Father Donatien Nshole, believing he would relive 2018, had warned that the CENCO-ECC observation mission would publish the results just after the vote. Prophecies of doom were spread that by the start of voting one candidate would be dead and another would end up in a wheelchair. Nothing like this has happened until the writing of these lines.
Once the predictions have been thwarted, it is time for a change of discourse.
The CENCO-ECC Electoral Observation Mission claimed, Thursday, December 21, to have received 1,185 incident reports recorded during these elections across the country. Furthermore, 302 reports received by the MOE CENCO-ECC attest that operations took place normally across the country.
Martin Fayulu, Denis Mukwege, Floribert Anzu Théodore Ngoy and Nkema Lilo demand the cancellation of the vote and the organization of new elections. According to them, the irregularities observed are likely to call into question the validity of the results and the legitimacy of the electoral process.
The majority of the 26 presidential candidates remained silent. None of them cried fraud or called for a street demand, except Moïse Katumbi and his allies Matata Ponyo, Delly Sesanga, Franck Diongo and Seth Kikuni, who call for the general mobilization of the population throughout the country. extent of the country in order to “ensure the defense of the freedom of vote expressed on December 20 in favor of the candidate Moïse Katumbi”.
As usual, the controversy is growing on social networks between those who think that these elections are the most mediocre and those who believe that there are no perfect elections.
Jean Fundi Kiparamoto, 26.12.23
Image – source: Congolese press
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