From France, where he stayed a few weeks ago, Honorary Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito, who answered questions from 7SUR7.CD on September 20, 2024, believes that if there were to be dialogue in the DRC, it should primarily concern the drafting of a new constitution by an elected constituent.
This constituent assembly, specifies Adolphe Muzito, will have to be programmed through dialogue, under a transitional government which will be responsible for organizing everything.
“If there is to be dialogue, it must first concern the drafting of a new constitution. We are a country that operates according to a constitution voted by non-elected people. We need an elected constituent… We can set up a technical commission for the drafting… The constitution must be adopted by a Parliament that has been voted by the people for this purpose,” he said.
This new constitution will notably have to shift the Republic towards a second-degree presidential regime.
“The regime will be the second-degree presidential regime. That is to say, the president will be elected by the majority political party. It is like in South Africa or Angola. And like that, the president becomes accountable since most of the prerogatives of the executive power, in the current regime, are attributed on paper to the government, but in reality, this power is totally exercised by the President of the Republic who does not answer to Parliament and yet, it is from him that the impulses and decisions come. In reality, it is even his campaign program that is applied by the government,” he observed.
Asked whether he was not afraid of the tensions that could result from the consequence of a new constitution, that is to say the resetting of Tshisekedi’s mandate counter to zero, Adolphe Muzito believes that it is not a question of an individual agreeing or not.
“The problem is that we are not democrats. It is not a question of an individual agreeing or not. The UDPS did not go to the referendum in 2006, did the constitution not come out? Today, the UDPS is running the country under the same constitution that came out of the referendum that it had rejected. That is not going to change today. If someone does not agree, the sky is not going to fall on the Congo or on the globe,” he added.
Just like Muzito last year, the opponent Martin Fayulu, president of the party Engagement pour la citoyenne et le développement (ECIDé) has been calling for a dialogue to be held between the Congolese socio-political class under the mediation of spiritual leaders.
The aim of this approach, according to him, is to strengthen national cohesion and support the territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), while the country is facing aggression from Rwanda under the cover of the M23 rebel group.
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2024-09-21 18:15:46
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