The opposition Ensemble pour la République party accuses the Kinshasa government of not being ready to hold the December 20 elections.
Hervé Diakese, the spokesperson for the Ensemble pour la République political party with a flag bearer Moïse Katumbi said in the Wednesday press briefing that by begging for logistical support from MONUSCO for the deployment of electoral materials reflects the unpreparedness of the CENI and the government.
The Kinshasa government wants MONUSCO to assist in delivering electoral materials in polling stations across the country.
“It shows unpreparedness. How can we claim to have a budget of several billion dollars, a logistical plan, an international expert in electoral matters, only to end up asking MONUSCO for its planes to deploy voting materials? It doesn’t make sense,” said Hervé Diakese.
He also adds that MONUSCO has limits in deploying or deploying its equipment in areas where it is not established, compared to its current mandate.
According to him, the CENI works under the orders of the power of Félix Tshisekedi, candidate for his own succession.
“This is what happens when you have a CENI carved in your image and likeness, aligned as the gendarme of candidate Tshisekedi and which, today, has demonstrated to the face of the world the same chaotic unpreparedness, the same inability to anticipation on a logistical level and who does not have the courage to assume that we are heading straight towards a situation that they no longer know how to manage,” he insisted.
The spokesperson for Ensemble pour la République warns that his party will not accept any postponement of the elections.
Monusco has already helped the CENI to deploy some voting equipment, notably in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri, provinces where it is still operational.
“The government would be grateful if the Security Council would kindly authorize MONUSCO to extend this support to other provinces,” indicated Zénon Mukongo, DRC ambassador to the United Nations in his correspondence to the President of the Security Council.
