…..JUST IN: Tshisekedi reelected as Congo’s President
President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has garnered 73 percent of votes to win a re-election in the country’s presidential poll.
Announcing the results on Sunday in the capital Kinshasa, Denis Kadima, the head Congo’s National Election Commission known as the CENI, said Tshisekedi was elected with 73.34% of the vote having obtained over 13 million votes out of over 18 million valid votes.
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Earlier on Sunday a group of Congo’s main opposition presidential candidates asked supporters to take to the streets to protest after the release of the provisional results.
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“We categorically reject the sham elections… and its results,” the main opposition candidates said in a joint declaration. They demanded fresh elections be held with a new electoral body on a date to be agreed by all.
“We call on our people to take to the streets en masse after the proclamation of the electoral fraud,” they said.
The government of Congo had previously rejected calls for a rerun of the elections.
…..JUST IN: Tshisekedi reelected as Congo’s President
