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General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 20 December 2023. Combined elections were held for the President, 484 of the 500 members of the National Assembly, 700 of the 716 elected members of the 26 provincial assemblies, and for the first time under the new constitution, 951 members of a scaled down number of commune (municipal) councils.
2013: 22,016 UN Monusco Uniformed personnel (2013) [9] 2,000 FDLR [10] 3,000 FNL/Palipehutu Hundreds of FNL–Nzabampema: 1,000–1,250 (2018) [11] Several thousand Raia Mutomboki militia
The regime of President Mobutu Sese Seko lasted 32 years (1965–1997), during which all but the first seven years the country was named Zaire.His dictatorship operated as a one-party state, which saw most of the powers concentrated between President Mobutu, who was simultaneously the head of both the party and the state through the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR), and a series of ...
The Senate has 108 elected seats with four seats per province and eight for the city-province of Kinshasa.The members of a provincial assembly make up the electoral college that elects the senators of that province.
"RDC : la CENI envisage l'organisation des élections du Président, des députés et des conseillers en décembre 2023". Radio Okapi (in French). 3 February 2022. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022 "RDC : La CENI publie le calendrier électoral du cycle 2022-2027". Radio Okapi (in French). 26 November 2022
The party can trace its origins to a group of dissenting parliamentarians during the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko and his Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR). In December 1980, Mobutu received a 52-page open letter calling for the democratization of the political system in Zaire (as the DRC was then known) and the permittance of opposition parties. [7]
The People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (French: Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie or PPRD) is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kinshasa (/ k ɪ n ˈ ʃ ɑː s ə /; French:; Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville from 1881–1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.