FEARS are growing that Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), may run for re-election for a third term, a development that would break the rules of the central African country’s current constitution, said Bloomberg News.
The newswire said recent changes at the DRC’s constitutional court, in which two of three judge appointments are well-known Kabila supporters, suggest Kabila could press for changes that would permit him to run for re-election. The country is preparing to go to the polls at the end of this year after Kabila delayed them a year.
“The Kabila clan will now do everything to push big decisions and big questions to the Constitutional Court and the court will respond in favor of Kabila’s political family,” opposition lawmaker Martin Fayulu told Bloomberg. The Presidential Majority, Kabila’s ruling coalition, said the nominations were “completely normal and legal.”
