DR Congo : President Felix Tshisekedi’s New Coalition Afoot

A meeting between Félix Tshisekedi and Parliamentarians who joined the “Sacred Union of the Nation” took place on January 3, 2021 at the Cité de l'Union africaine. More than 300 members of the National Assembly attended the meeting during which the Head of State invited them to vote for the “Sacred Union” ticket during the next January session of the National Assembly. “You have not betrayed anyone, you have sided with the people”, in other words, declared a confident President Tshisekedi. 
The meeting held a few days to the extraordinary session of the National Assembly that has been slated for today January 5, 2021 was a forum for the Head of State to reassure himself of the new political configuration which should give a majority to the “Sacred Union of the Nation.” It is during this extraordinary session, that the new bureau and President of the National Assembly will be elected to replace Jeannine Mabunda FCC, dismissed shortly before the end of the December 10, 2020 ordinary session.
According to observers, the meeting that brought together defectors from the Common Front for the Congo (FCC), headed by ex-President Joseph Kabila, including the very emblematic Ngoyi Kasanji, Jean-Charles Okoto and Maguy Rwakabuba from the People's ...