Primaries to Settle Between Bahati, Kamerhe, and Mboso," announces Forum des as. Due to a lack of internal consensus, the elected officials of the Sacred Union for the Nation (USN), the ruling majority, will designate their candidate for the presidency of the National Assembly.

A statement from the Secretary-General of the UDPS, Augustin Kabuya, published on Monday, April 22, calls them for the primary election this Wednesday, April 23. They will have to decide between three contenders: Christophe Mboso, the outgoing president of the National Assembly, Modeste Bahati, the outgoing president of the Senate, and Vital Kamerhe, the outgoing deputy Prime Minister in charge of Economy.

Among the Congolese public, this election raises concerns about unity within the political family of the Head of State.

In the same vein, the Congolese Press Agency (ACP) reports that "This procedure is put in place to avoid frustrations and the arbitration of the Head of State which resembles dictatorship under these circumstances," reacted a political advisor to President Tshisekedi.

The establishment of the Bureau of the National Assembly is delayed due to the ambitions of the political actors of the majority who are determined to occupy this position at all costs.

Under the title: "The Governor of Tanganyika reined in by the IGF," Le Phare reports that, feeling her hands were tied since the arrival of the control mission from the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF), Julie Ngungwa, the Governor of the Tanganyika province, used a television platform to vilify this financial control service attached to the Presidency of the Republic.

In the concern to shed light for the Congolese, the General Inspector of Finance Bitasimwa, head of the Brigade in charge of provinces and decentralized territorial entities, swept away all allegations and enlightened the opinion through the same channel.

"(…) The IGF does not co-manage; it has rather changed its methods and now applies the prior control called financial patrol instead of the old method, which is the after-the-fact control that has already shown its limits because tracking the management of someone who has already left proves ambiguous," declared Inspector Bitasimwa.

La Prospérité publishes the names of 19 deputies reinstated by the Constitutional Court. Indeed, during its public hearing held on Monday, April 22, 2024, the high court sitting in matters of correction of material errors, ruled in favor of only 19 national elected officials.

Their requests were deemed founded, after laborious work. The Constitutional Court had received a total of 134 files.

Among the reinstated deputies are, among others, Serge Bahati, Séraphine Kilubu, Jean Bakomito, to name just a few.

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