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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.
20 December – 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election: Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo elect the President, members of the National Assembly, provincial assemblies, and commune councils. 26 December – Twenty-two people are killed by floods in Kasaï-Central. Several houses and structures are damaged, with a ...
None of these were held in the first three election cycles under the current system. In the current cycle, as of April 2024, only the election of a limited number of commune councils has occurred. These elections are run by the Independent National Electoral Commission, often referred to by its French acronym CENI. New elections should be run ...
The vote clears the way for Congo to name a government, which it has not had since the December 2023 presidential election that handed Tshisekedi a second term.
After the 2023 presidential election, Tshisekedi had a clear lead in his run for a second term. [122] On 31 December 2023, officials said that President Felix Tshisekedi had been re-elected with 73% of the vote. Nine opposition candidates signed a declaration rejecting the election and called for a rerun. [123]
The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Président de la République démocratique du Congo, Swahili: Rais wa Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo, Lingala: Mokonzi wa Republíki ya Kongó Demokratíki) is the head of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Tshisekedi with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen in Kinshasa, 4 March 2023. After the 2023 presidential election, Tshisekedi had a clear lead in his run for a second term. [42] On 31 December 2023, officials said that Tshisekedi had been re-elected with 73% of the vote.
The DRC’s mining operations are heavily-guarded by soldiers from the DRC’s Armed Forces or company-paid militias, and located in areas far off the beaten track and known to erupt in conflict.