He proposes to wait for the lifting of this exceptional measure in order to resume the debate on this specific question.
“We had proposed it, but to pass the presidency to two rounds, we need a revision of the constitution and as you know we are during a state of siege, and therefore we have suspended the debate on the revision of the constitution. . When the state of siege is going to be lifted, since I consider that this state of siege must be lifted, as I see that the government is probably going in this direction, we are going to put this debate back on the table so that the he election of the President of the Republic takes place in two rounds,” he explained to the press after the plenary session.
Still in connection with the innovations, the elected representative of Luiza (Kasai Central) indicated that the proposal for the electoral law initiated by the G13 will “introduce more transparency into the electoral process”.
This proposal, he adds, will also “establish a results traceability system to allow the results to be published polling station by polling station and that the partial results published locally are binding on everyone and prevent this that the Independent National Electoral Commission cannot further manipulate the results”.
“There is also greater accountability of CENI leaders and voting methods that are adapted to avoid corruption and at the level of elections. So all this represents progress and expectations that our people want for the next electoral process,” said Delly Sesanga.
The law also proposes the removal of the electoral threshold.
“There are people who are elected whose threshold is not known, I myself do not know the threshold of my electoral list, can you imagine? Three years later, I don’t know the threshold, so the threshold has been manipulated to pass another or eliminate another candidate. What we now want is that instead of having the threshold that we require the lists to be representative on the national territory, that is to say to present 60% of the candidates for the seat in competition , this is much more transparent and prior is done a priori whereas in the threshold system it is the independent national electoral commission that manipulates”, he denounced.
And to add: “We are fighting the clientelism of the political class which today wants all the members of the family in a block to present themselves with substitutes, give up their seats to their family members and this patrimonialization of the political space by families is not desirable”.
Started on Thursday April 14, 2022, the debate on the reform of the electoral law will continue again on Wednesday April 20. According to Christophe Mboso, President of the National Assembly, the objective of this long downtime is first of all to allow the return of the national deputies of the Common Front for Congo (FCC), who boycotted the plenary session today. . These elected officials close to Joseph Kabila denounce the lack of consensus on the question of the electoral law before debating it in plenary.
This truce will also allow the parliamentary groups to consult each other in order to exercise options on various proposals.
Christine Wabiwa
