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Liberal Christian Democrats Union ( Union des Libéraux Démocrates Chrétiens/ULDC ) Raymond Tshibanda. Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( Mouvement pour la Liberation du Congo/MLC ) Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo. National Alliance Party for Unity ( Parti de l'Alliance Nationale pour l'Unité/PANU ) André-Philippe Futa.
Together with the four unsplit provinces— Bas-Congo (renamed Kongo Central), Maniema, Nord-Kivu, and Sud-Kivu —they make up the twenty-five provinces listed in Article 2 of the Constitution. [3] [4] Under the old organization the six former provinces were divided into districts and cities.
Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Politics of the Democratic Republic of Congo take place in a framework of a republic in transition from a civil war to a semi-presidential republic . On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution, which set the stage for elections in 2006.
The Belgian Congo became an independent country in 1960, named Republic of the Congo. By 1963, the country was organised into 21 provinces (informally called provincettes) plus the capital city of Léopoldville, similar to the original 22 districts under colonial rule. In 1966, the 21 provincettes were grouped into eight provinces, and the ...
t. e. General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 20 December 2023. Combined elections were held for the President, 484 of the 500 members of the National Assembly, 700 of the 716 elected members of the 26 provincial assemblies, and for the first time under the new constitution, 951 members of a scaled down number of ...
General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 30 December 2018, to determine a successor to President Joseph Kabila, [1] as well as for the 500 seats of the National Assembly and the 715 elected seats of the 26 provincial assemblies. [2] Félix Tshisekedi ( UDPS) won with 38.6% of the vote, defeating another opposition ...
Félix Tshisekedi. Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo [1] ( French: [feliks ɑ̃twan tʃisekedi tʃilombo]; born 13 June 1963) [2] is a Congolese politician who has been the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 24 January 2019. [3] He is the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the DRC's oldest and ...
Moïse Katumbi Chapwe ( French pronunciation: [mɔiz katœ̃bi]; born 28 December 1964) is a Congolese businessman and politician. He leads the Together for the Republic party. He was Governor of Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2007 to September 2015. He was a member of the People's ...