2024-01-01 17:17:48
Félix Tshisekedi was declared the winner of the election on New Year’s Eve. His opponents are contesting the election.
The official announcement of the election results in the capital Kinshasa came just on New Year’s Eve, a few hours before the turn of the year – with the calculation that no one would feel like demonstrating. Hours earlier, the opposition had unanimously questioned the legitimacy of President Félix Tshisekedi’s election victory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, held out the prospect of a challenge to the electoral commission and called for new elections. She held a rally shortly following Christmas, which the police quickly broke up.
According to official figures, 73 percent voted for the re-election of the 60-year-old, the son of the charismatic former prime minister and opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi. 18 percent went to Moise Katumbi, the extremely wealthy former governor of the resource-rich province of Katanga in the south of the giant country in the heart of Africa, and five percent to the ex-oil manager Martin Fayulu.
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