I think the first thing that the ann refers to is that the DRC cannot do anything until the cabinet is formed. Lets wait and see what that brings. We can live in hope
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Prime Minister: Acacia Bandubola and Judith Tuluka on Félix Tshisekedi’s short list
The battle for the succession of Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde as prime minister is tough.
While several names are circulating in traditional media and social networks, the President of the Democratic Republic, Félix Tshisekedi, would be partial to only two.
During a political morning organized on March 10, the secretary general of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) and designated informant to identify the parliamentary majority affirmed that the presidential party will have the post of prime minister .
“The prime ministership will return by right to the UDPS. The President of the Republic reassured me: I told you that if you return with the majority I will give you the prime ministership.
I ask you to be disciplined so that the head of state gives us what he promised,” declared Augustin Kabuya.
These assurances that the Head of State would have given to the SG of his political party automatically exclude certain contenders from the race for the nomination for the post of Prime Minister.
Within the UDPS, we learn, two names, all women, would emerge.
They are Acacia Bandubola and Judith Tuluka.
Experienced women
Both are renowned for their loyalty to the party of the late Étienne Tshisekedi and are among President Félix Tshisekedi's trusted people.
The latter, known for being a champion of positive masculinity, would be determined to send a strong signal to women, by appointing a woman at the head of government.
Which will be a first in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This, especially since at the end of the elections of December 20, 2023, only 61 women were elected out of a total of 477 national deputies out of the 500 in the lower house of Parliament.
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To return to the two aforementioned primaturables, it must be said that Acacia Bandubola sits in the last square of the President of the Republic.
The former Minister of the National Economy is a woman of important issues in the country, she who was co-director of the coordination of Félix Tshisekedi's electoral campaign for his second term.
The brilliant re-election of Fatshi would have made everyone agree on the abilities of a native of Kisangani, province of Tshopo and currently national deputy for Lukunga in Kinshasa, to manage sensitive issues.
From there to making her prime minister?
“She is a well-made, well-rounded and well-thinking person. She has a profile that is suitable for high state responsibilities and has shoulders strong enough to support the load of government,” responds a close friend of the President of the Republic. .
As for Judith Tuluka, current Minister of State for Planning, she would be the outsider to be taken very seriously.
The former official of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), who was also Budget Advisor and deputy to the coordinator of the Strategic Watch Council of the Presidency of the Republic, also has arguments to put forward.
Originally from central Kongo, a province which is waiting to see one of its daughters or one of its sons lead the government for the first time, she is experienced, less confrontational and above all familiar with technical questions.
With the imminent publication of the judgments of the Constitutional Court on electoral disputes and the results of the national legislative elections, everything suggests that one of these two women could be appointed prime minister one of these four mornings.
Currency of the votes of provincial deputies: President Félix Tshisekedi warns the corrupters and the corrupt (Minister of Justice)
President Félix Tshisekedi spoke this Tuesday, March 12, 2024, with the Minister of State in charge of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Rose Mutombo, about the behavior of the various provincial deputies who would sell their votes to the senator and governor candidates.
In his capacity as Guarantor of the proper functioning of institutions, the Head of State asked the Minister of State for Justice to discuss with the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation so that he can attract the attention of different attorneys general on all these rumors of corruption.
“This has to stop. We cannot continue to accept such open corruption.
There must be severe sanctions for anyone caught selling their vote,” declared the Minister of Justice.
And to add “those who are arrested will only be able to draw the consequences of their behavior”.
Initially scheduled for March 31 and April 7, 2024 respectively, the elections of senators as well as those of governors and vice-governors of provinces were postponed by three weeks.
The revised calendar, as published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Ceni), provides for the holding of the senatorial elections on April 21 and the vote for governors and vice-governors on the 28th of the same month.
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Food for thought
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Frank
