"FCC: Parliamentary majority confirmed around Kabila!", LA PROSPERITE mentions. According to the newspaper, there is no longer any doubt about it. The Common Front for Congo has the most elected representatives within the National Assembly and is therefore the new parliamentary majority by which the next Prime Minister will emerge. The 341 national deputies were gathered Sunday, February 24, 2019 in Kingakati around the former Head of State and moral authority of the FCC, Joseph Kabila. This, after having reaffirmed their commitment to the mega political platform a few days ago through the various leaders of the political groupings of which they are members. On Sunday, during an interview that lasted almost an hour, they were asked to continue defending the sovereignty and stability of the country as well as the welfare of the population.
LE POTENTIEL argues that by enacting the FCC as "Parliamentary Majority", "in Kingakati, the Constitution was violated". Would the Common Front for Congo (FCC) put the cart before the horse to complicate the task of the President of the Republic, Felix Tshisekedi, in the appointment of the next Prime Minister? While claiming a "parliamentary majority", since his last meeting of Kingakati, around its moral authority, Senator Joseph Kabila, the FCC thinks to short-circuit the Constitution. What would put the President of the Republic in difficulty- With the FCC now a mega political grouping, Modeste Mutinga, president of the Alliance for Democratic Alternation (DAA), believes that in Kingakati, the FCC has grossly violated the Constitution. It recommends to the Head of State to appoint an informant; no party or political group has, according to him, reached the majority in the new National Assembly.
Under the title: "Prime Minister: why not Kabila", AFRICANEWS notes that under the law on the status of former Presidents of the Republic, Joseph Kabila, as former Head of State, is struck by a certain incompatibility which relates inter alia to his status as a senator for life. As a senator, Article 108 of the Constitution refers to the incompatibility for Kabila to assume certain functions, including those of prime minister. However, no constitutional provision prohibits the 4th DR-Congolese President to take the leadership of the Executive after leaving the supreme office. In this case, Kabila will have to choose between the upper house of Parliament and the Prime minister office.
Sophisticated analysts say the US statement contains clear contradictions. Since its expresses its satisfaction and agrees to work with the new power of Kinshasa. There are not a thousand ways to understand that Washington recognizes the legality and even the legitimacy of the leaders of the polls of last December 30. Because it is about the elected leaders, one cannot claim to be congratulated for the fact that it has had democratic transition of the power, and is not to recognize the craftsmen of this one.
In the same way, L'AVENIR mentions: "The goal is to weaken institutions". Some observers of the Congolese political scene think that it is a pressure exerted on the new president or a new political map that the Americans would like to impose on him as to say that the Americans would like to put the current president of the Republic back to the wall, in a situation that he cannot refuse anything.
FORUM DES AS announces that the big "baobab tree" Gizenga died on Sunday yesterday February 24 into the Medical centre of Kinshasa in Gombe. The body is preserved at the mortuary of the hospital du cinquantenaire. With the PALU, it is all the new province of Kwilu which cries its mythical leader. Antoine Gizenga dies satisfiesof the days.
(CKS/Yes)