The increased number of parties (nearly 1,000) and political groupings in the Republic FFS!!Mrs Suminwa was right (Pierre Matadi)
The political sky of the Democratic Republic of Congo is cloudy on the morning of this new week, reminding everyone of this premonition of Prime Minister Judith Suminwa who addressed the tenors of the Sacred Union of the Nation the day after her nomination:
“Don’t make me late”
Informed observers of the political microcosm of Lumumba's country place this week, in view of the issues of the moment, under the sign of the "war of posts", accredited by the litany of political declarations poured into the media at the weekend by actors “bitter” politicians.
Messages addressed – and this has been a tradition since the Mobutu years – to “both national and international opinion” for a matter that can be resolved internally.
All this energy to spare, to be among the seven members perched in the final office of the National Assembly.
Dirty laundry that should have been washed with the family is spread out in the open!
It all started with the publication, via social networks, of the minutes sanctioning a meeting of the Presidium of the Sacred Union devoted to the finalization of the Majority ticket to this office, the last primaries having only stopped at “juicy” post of speaker of the Lower House of Parliament.
“The comments and analyzes which followed seem to indicate that, as a result, the Sacred Union of the Nation will have opened Pandora's box which does not speak its name,” commented a member of the majority coalition within of this Institution joined on Sunday by the ACP.
As a result, dissonant voices within this mega-grouping that we believed to be united held speeches going in all directions, from geopolitics, to genealogy as well as the political past of the leaders of the presidium.
“Wouldn’t this suggest the intrusion of wolves into the sheepfold? asked the ACP interlocutor.
From the Mobutu years to the advent of Félix Tshisekedi, through the power of the Kabila, the Congolese political class has accustomed the people to this kind of spectacle: disputes over positions at times of great stakes.
Disputes leading to denials and dissidence.
Enough to understand, without too much intellectual gymnastics, the increased number of parties (nearly 1,000) and political groupings in the Republic.
You just have to approach them to find empty shells who have come to fill the ranks for a place in the sun of the Congolese political class, and it doesn't stop there.
This behavior of which the Congolese politician seems to have a monopoly is unfortunately in his DNA, it is so difficult for him to become a “Statesman”, it has been pointed out.
Democratically speaking, political parties and groups are based on statutes and regulatory texts enforceable against all members.
“Ignoring the decisions of the presidium means that we would like to transform the Sacred Union into a rudderless ship,” said another analyst.
Gluttony
The people do not need this desolate scene, thunderous declarations.
His primary concern here and now is that the National Assembly be operational as quickly as possible to invest the future Suminwa government called to "put its troops to work, ensure discipline, order and cohesion within the government, reassure the population ".
Ms. Suminwa was right. Time has just proven him right.
She did well to identify the problem: the gluttony of a political class clinging to personal interests instead of the future of the country.
Ms Suminwa had made the correct diagnosis.
Quarrels over positioning would plague the process of establishing the government.
We are tied hand and foot there.
As a democrat and respectful of the texts, the President of the Republic placed himself above the fray, confronting the political class in power with its responsibilities.
The spectacle is distressing.
“The hard work is yet to come,” concluded an analyst, estimating that at some point, the political game must give way to healthy governance of the country.
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And they all want to become minister of fucking funny walks, so they can stick their snouts deep in the trough.
Why not have 100 million political parties and make everybody a bloody minister?
