President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi's speech also focused on the need for urban, municipal and local elections. In connection with the events following the oral of the head of State, the spokesman of the Independent National Electoral Commission said on Top Congo that the elections would be held at US 300 million dollars.
According to some indiscretions, these elections are intended to elect the councilors of the municipalities, the sectors and the chiefdoms. Including the vote of city councilors, burgomasters, and heads of sectors, to finish with the mayors and their assistants
Jean-Pierre Kalamba clarified that these elections are just as important as the presidential and legislative elections held in December 2018. For the Ceni, the Congolese Government is invited to mobilize the means necessary for the success of this electoral cycle which should lead to the implementation of strong institutions at the base level.
Endorsing the plea of the Head of State, the spokesman of the electoral center recalled that the holding of local, urban and municipal elections will undoubtedly contribute to the strengthening the Congolese democracy from the bottom to the top.
650,000 agents are to be mobilized, when to open 75,000 polling stations. As much, the same types of materials will be deployed, that is to say 50 million ballots, 75 thousand bottles of indelible ink, the forms to be used for the 3 [previous] elections throughout the republic. "
These are burst elections and therefore more expensive than the elections organized on December 30, 2018, since they are no longer at the level of territories but of sectors. And in the sector, each group must be represented on the sector or chiefdom council. So these are more complex elections.
Corneille Kinsala N’soki
(CKS/Yes)