LE POTENTIEL reports in big headline that the FCC won the Senate elections. According to the daily newspaper of Bas-Congo Avenue, the senatorial were largely in favor of the Common Front for Congo. Meanwhile, the official communiqué of this platform on the exact number of its elected senators, the FCC should have more than 80 senators out of the 100 which were elected on Friday, March 15 through the 24 provinces.
As in the national and provincial legislatures, LE POTENTIEL reminds, the FCC captures the senatorial. In addition to the life senator Joseph Kabila, the tabloid says, the remaining 8 senators will come from two provinces where have not yet held elections, namely Nord Kivu and Maï-Ndombe.
SCOOPRDC.NET exclaims: victory in senatorial elections, another party at the FCC! While obtaining a very large majority of more than two-thirds in the Senate, the Common Front of the Congo (FCC), which welcomes this brilliant victory, confirms its preponderance as the first political force in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This reassurance is explained as much because this political group aligned behind the honorary president Joseph Kabila, settled well within the National Assembly with 341 national deputies, 20 presidents at the head of the provincial assemblies and now with more than 80 senators, the SCOOPRDC website underlines.
It is the same at TIMES.CD that evokes the tidal wave of the FCC senatorial. The site writes that at the same time, Joseph Kabila's platform has invited all his representatives to remain mobilized for the remaining votes, including governors and vice-governors which will take place in the coming days.
The Common Front for the Congo welcomes the continuation of the process of renewal of institutions with an elective mandate and congratulates the CENI for holding today Senate elections under good conditions of credibility and transparency, the site of TIMES.CD reorts.
MATININFOS.NET continues that the FCC wins a majority of seats and welcomes its "brilliant victory". MATINSINFOS said that this victory (in the Senate and the National Assembly) allows the FCC to sue the President of the Republic Felix Tshisekedi with Article 166 of the Congolese Constitution which states that "the decision to prosecute and the indictment of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister shall be passed by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Parliament composing the Congress in accordance with the procedure provided for in the procedure rules".
LOBJETIF.NET mentions: the FCC disillusions the CASH! According to the online media, with 92 senators out of the 120 seats within the Upper House of Parliament, we rub our hands of this victory in the election of senators organized this Friday, March 15, 2019 in the DRC, its coordinator Nehemiah Mwilanya does not hide his joy.
"While obtaining a very large majority of more than two thirds in the Senate, the FCC, which welcomes this brilliant victory, confirms its dominance as the first political force in the DRC." All the ingredients come together to take the lead in the Senate, L’OBJECTIF.NET adds.
7SUR7.CD reports that for the FCC, the results confirm its preponderance as the first political force in the DRC. The FCC through the coordinator of its Strategic Committee warmly congratulates the elected senators as well as all the provincial deputies who have observed the discipline and cohesion recommended by Joseph Kabila Kabange.
"The FCC has invited its members to remain mobilized for the remaining elections of the governors and vice-governors planed for soon", Nehemiah Mwilanya concludes. Let us also recall that the Common Front for the Congo had already obtained an absolute majority within the National Assembly, 7SUR7.CD reveals.
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