DR Congo opposition plans election protest despite government ban
Al Jazeera
Five opposition candidates had announced their intention to march, calling the DRC election a fraud.
Opposition candidates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s presidential election in which early results show the incumbent with a large lead, plan to march in the capital on Wednesday, despite authorities banning the protest.
Five opposition presidential candidates informed the governor of Kinshasa in a letter published on Saturday of their intention to organise the march.
Afterwards, Martin Fayulu, one of the main challengers to President Felix Tshisekedi in the December 20 election, had said the opposition candidates who had called the joint demonstration over alleged election irregularities would proceed with the march because they were convinced the vote was a fraud.
“We are going to protest because we can’t accept another electoral coup d’etat,” Fayulu told Reuters by telephone.
He was speaking hours after interior minister Peter Kazadi said the march had no legal basis and was aimed at undermining the work of the election commission which was still compiling results.
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