Martin Madidi Fayulu the leader of opposition (ECD)Engagement for Citizenship and Development party has warned President Félix Tshisekedi against any attempt to modify the constitution.
Tshisekedi who won the recent Presidential elections with 73.47% of the vote is feared to try to tamper with the constitution to make it easy for him to seek another term in office.
From March 1 to 5, hundreds of ECD party delegates from the party’s 32 political provinces held a conference in the capital Kinshasa under the theme: “Let’s save the DRC from danger”.
The National Council, ECD’s supreme body warned the regime of Félix Tshisekedi against any attempt to modify the constitution and its locked articles.
“The National Council of ECID opposes any change to the Constitution or any revision of its locked articles and asks the National Office to spare no effort to defeat any attempt to change the Constitution and any untimely revision “, the party said in a press release.
The National Council of the ECiDé urges the National Office to urgently initiate necessary reforms of the party organs in accordance with the recommendations of the Council to prepare to take power and save the DRC from danger.
“The National Council of ECiDé notes that the regime in place encourages anti-values such as violations of the Constitutions and laws of the country, embezzlement of public funds, corruption, nepotism, tribalism, manipulation of justice , the creation of militias, the systematic violation of human rights, the trivialization of human life and the corporalization of institutions supporting democracy. He therefore enjoins the National Office to mobilize the Congolese to fight vigorously against these practices”, reads in part the press release.
According to figures from the Constitutional Court, Tshisekedi won elections with 73.47% followed by Moïse Katumbi Chapwe with 18.08%, Martin Fayulu Madidi 4.92% and Adolphe Muzito 1.12%.
This re-election of Félix Tshisekedi is contested by certain political leaders of the opposition following the irregularities and acts of fraud denounced after the voting operations. This is the case of Moïse Katumbi, Martin Fayulu, Dénis Mukwege and others who call for a dialogue for the reorganization of the elections with an CENI and a reconstituted Constitutional Court.
In light of the current constitution in force in the DRC, Félix Tshisekedi can no longer stand for elections beyond his second term.
The second mandate obtained at the end of the 4th electoral cycle is his last mandate at the head of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
