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*Meanwhile, Back at the Farm, the Home of Kabila re:- The Days of our DRC Lives
The former President of the Republic gathered his followers and announced that he would soon address the Congolese.
For months the former President of the Congolese Republic has been playing the card of discretion.
More than four years after leaving power, more than two years after being dribbled over by Félix Tshisekedi whom he had appointed to succeed him without taking into account the will of the ballot box, Joseph Kabila is back at the front of the stage.
Why this return?
Joseph Kabila no longer had the right to silence. In the home stretch ahead of the presidential and legislative elections announced for December 20, the "moral authority" of the Common Front for Congo (FCC), which remains a structure that weighs on Congolese life despite the defection of very many deputies and senators who succumbed to the briefcases of greenbacks and the luxury cars distributed by the presidency of Tshisekedi, had to set a course if he wants to keep those who have remained faithful to him.
www.mediacongo.net/article-actualite-123369_sortie_mediatique_de_kabila_pour_quelles_raisons_et_consequences.html
Media release of Kabila: The risky bet of Raïs
Without a doubt.
There will be a before and an after appearance on the stage by Joseph Kabila.
It will therefore be little to predict that this comeback will reshuffle the political cards.
And that the lines will move.
The man who is making his political comeback is obviously not just anyone.
Is it still necessary to recall that he was the alpha and the omega of the politico-institutional life of the country for two decades.
Making and unmaking most of the politico-military establishment.
When from his Kingakati sanctuary where he lives almost as a hermit, JKK lets the city and the country know that he has not yet retired, it is not only Social Security that revises and submits its calculations .
The entire national political spectrum and some of our main external partners are preparing to update their software.
With the end of the minimum service in Kingakati, the country is therefore on the eve of a turning point.
The problem is the nature of this turn.
Because, the pedigree of the senator for life Kabila carries as many assets as handicaps, as many advantages as disadvantages.
If he commands esteem and respect, it is precisely because of his status, he flies very high like an eagle.
Going down into the political arena, Joseph Kabila would lend the flank to criticism and especially to blows always going above the belt.
Almost like any political actor.
The risk of seeing this return turn into one fight too many is there.
Because, the political scene that he will return to is no longer quite the same.
To borrow from the sports lexicon, if the playing area is the same, the match is no longer the same.
Many players have changed jackets following or in favor – it depends – of the large transfer window operated by the new coach-sponsor.
In short, a lot of water has flowed under the N’sele bridge.
The challenge for the Raïs is to ensure that his comeback is perceived and above all experienced as that of the last resort of the providential man.
Recourse can, in this case, rhyme with relief.
In fact, nearly five years after the highly scripted transfer of power, the change expected by the silent majority is turning Arlesian.
The Congolese are still subscribed or even stuck – despite themselves – in the same mess.
The indicators of “misery” generally remain as they are.
Already proverbially weak, purchasing power has shrunk further.
That is to say.
Is this enough for the Congolese to absolve the one whom the opposition has demonized by making him responsible for all the cumulative ills of the DRC since its independence?
Nothing is less sure.
Still, since ancient Greece it has been the characteristic of peoples to adore today what they burned yesterday and to burn what they adored yesterday.
There, could reside the key to the enigma of the risky bet of the Raïs.
www.mediacongo.net/article-actualite-123370_sortie_mediatique_de_kabila_le_pari_risque_du_rais.html
Food for thought
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