No more mystery about the candidate of the Sacred Union of the Nation for the speakership of the National Assembly, announces Forum des as. Indeed, the suspense was lifted on Tuesday, April 23, after a vote that saw three heavyweights of President Félix Tshisekedi's political platform compete.

It was late in the evening when the white smoke emerged from these primaries of the Majority. Out of 372 voters indeed, Vital Kamerhe won with 183 votes against his two competitors: Mboso Nkodia (113 votes), the outgoing president of the Lower House, and Modeste Bahati Lukwebo (69 votes), the outgoing president of the Senate.

Now with strong support from the deputies of the ruling political family, Vital Kamerhe can dream. Dream of regaining, fifteen years later, the speakership he lost by openly opposing the military maneuvers of a foreign army in Kivu, his electoral stronghold. A stance that, at the time, had earned him an ejection by the political family of Joseph Kabila, forcing him to resign.

In the same vein, the Congolese news agency (ACP) reports that Vital Kamerhe, former president of the National Assembly under former President Joseph Kabila, won with 183 votes in the primary held Tuesday by the majority coalition to nominate its candidate for the presidency of the Lower House of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mr. Kamerhe's opponents were Modeste Bahati, the outgoing president of the Senate, and Christophe Mboso, also the outgoing president of the National Assembly, who obtained respectively 69 and 113 votes out of the 372 deputies of the "Sacred Union of the Nation" who participated in this vote.

"We met on Saturday at the level of the Presidium to reach a consensus around a single name for the presidency of the National Assembly, but all three refused to yield. They reported to the head of the Sacred Union, who received each of the three separately, still no solution," said Augustin Kabuya in his introductory remarks before the actual vote.

"In the end, all three unanimously proposed to the Head of State to organize the primaries," informed the secretary general of the UDPS.

La Prospérité also emphasizes that Vital Kamerhe will have the responsibility, when the time comes, to leverage all his experience to promote quality legislative production for the great benefit of thousands of Congolese scattered throughout the national territory. And this, throughout the second five-year term of President Félix Tshisekedi, which is set under the auspices of consolidating achievements and implementing major reforms on all fronts.

Under the title: "Kamerhe, the comeback!", AfricaNews recalls that Félix Tshisekedi once said of him that he still has a role to play. Now just one step away from the speakership, this Kamerhe is indeed making a significant return, after the political setbacks of 2009, the lull between 2011 and 2018, and the political-judicial troubles from 2020 to 2021. None of the blows he absorbed have diminished his determination.

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