There will be no election of the governor and deputy this Monday, April 15, 2019 in the province of Sankuru, located in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This decision comes from the President of the Republic Felix Antoine Tshisekedi since Goma where he is staying since yesterday, Sunday, April 14. The Head of State therefore asks the Central Electoral to postpone the vote waiting for "a legal and social agreement."

As a reminder, the election of the governor of the province of Sankuru had been suspended by the Council of State. This court of the administrative order asked the CENI to rehabilitate a candidate rejected by the Lusambo Court of Appeal before holding the ballot. What the CENI visibly refuses to do. With the support of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, the electoral center asked the president of the Sankuru Provincial Assembly to convene a plenary of his body on Saturday, 14 April, in order to proceed with the election of the governor, to which a member of the FCC - Lambert Mende - was retained alone as candidate while the Council of State had rehabilitated another candidate - Mr Mukumadi – who had been invalidated by the Court of Appeal.

The President of the Provincial Assembly refused to convene this plenary in accordance with the decision of the Council of State, the CENI announced that this election should imperatively take place on Monday, April 15, 2019, regardless of the number of deputies who will be present. It is therefore based on the report of the Superior Council of the Judiciary which qualified the judgments of the Council of State rehabilitating the other rival candidate Lambert Mende of "non-existent".

And the retort of Felix Vunduawe, president of the Council of State was not made wait. In an official statement dating from April 13, 2019, Felix Vunduawe te Pemako recalled that the higher Council of the magistrature is only one "body of administrative management, budgetary and disciplinary of the judicial power and that it received neither from the Constitution nor of the law the mission of replacing the courts of the Republic". Consequently, it affirms that the judgments delivered by the Council of State "remain valid and must be carried out promptly in the name of the President of the Republic"...

(CKS/Yes)