DR Congo : Ruling Party, UCN At Loggerheads
- Par Eldickson Agbortogo
- 15 mai 2020 10:49
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This follows the arrest, detention and sacking of the Director of Cabinet, Vital Kamerhe after being accused of corruption.
DR Congo’s political landscape is gradually witnessing a significant mutation following the appointment of Desire Cashmir Kolongele to replace detained Vital Karmerhe as interim Director of Cabinet of President Felix Tshisekedi. The appointment which was read over the national television on May 12, 2020 has been seen within his party and other circles as a "maneuver" to neutralize the former president of the national assembly.
According to senior members of his party, the arrest, detention and replacement of the leader of the Union for the Congolese Nation, is a deliberate move by the party in power to thwart the Nairobi power sharing agreement signed between President Felix Tshisekedi’s Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), and Vital Kamerhe’s Union for the Congolese Nation (UCN), in November 2018.
In the agreement, Félix Tshisekedi is designated candidate of the coalition, with the promise to appoint Vital Kamerhe as Prime Minister and to support the latter in the Presidential election of 2023, as candidate of their coalition. But because the two allies did not win majority seats in the Assembly, Kamerhe and Tshisekedi were forced to coalesce with Kabila to rule the country with Mr Vital becoming the Direction of Cabinet of the new president.
A few months after, not everything was going as planned. Kamerhe found himself at the heart of scandals. First, the famous $ 15 million affair, where he is strangely cited and the incessant leaks of confidential documents. Despite being supported by President Tshisekedi during the $15 million scan...
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