The newspapers published in Kinshasa this Friday, March 03 comment on the postponement of the presidential elections of December 2023 in the DRC. As well as, the arrival of the French President, Emmanuel Macron in Kinshasa this Saturday, March 04, 2023.
A few months before the presidential elections in the DRC, the persistence of the war in the east of the country is causing dysfunctions at the CENI. As a result,
the tone was set in two stages. This, first at the podium of the 52nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The Congolese president expressed himself bluntly that the persistence of the war in the east of the country risks jeopardizing the holding of the elections. Precisely the presidential election scheduled for December 2023.
Félix Tshisekedi then repeated it in front of his compatriots living in Switzerland. The pursuit
of this war, which is partly attributable to the double game of the international community, incapable of exerting significant pressure on the Rwandan president. This, in order to bring him to withdraw the support of the army of his country to the M23.
The massive displacement of populations from combat zones, insecurity and inaccessibility to these areas risk postponing the holding of the December 2023 elections.
According to Econews , the declaration of Félix Tshisekedi does not come from simple chance. The postponement of the elections was in the air for a long time.
In the UDPS, his political party, and from the first months of his accession to power, no secrets were made. It is about the will to perpetuate oneself in power. Some, among the most radical, go so far as to evoke the organization of elections in the mid-2030s.
While the camp of the moderates rather expressed the probability of elastic and indefinitely renewable transition periods.
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The arrival of Emmanuel Macron in Kinshasa
Against the backdrop of the crisis in eastern DRC, Emmanuel Macron will be in Kinshasa this Saturday, March 4. A one-on-one with Félix Tshisekedi will be organized, reports The Observer.
Since coming to power in 2018, this has been the
first visit of President Macron to the DRC. The Kinshasa stage will be decisive since it will put
highlights a broad and dynamic partnership that draws on the country’s unique strengths in terms of
research, natural resources, and
creativity.
The French President began his visit to Central Africa on March 1, 2023. For his first stage, Emmanuel Macron participated, from March 1 to 2, 2023 in a summit in Gabon. This, on the protection of the Congo Basin tropical forests co-organized with Gabonese President Ali Bongo.
On March 2, he was expected in Luanda, Angola, before
the stages of Brazzaville on March 03. And Kinshasa, March 04 and 5, 2023.
For this visit where he was accompanied by more than 50 businessmen, Emmanuel Macron has set several objectives.
Many people have noted, rightly or wrongly, France’s lack of interest in the situation that Africa is going through. So much so that France is dislodged, even supplanted in its own pre-squares. This is the case in the Central African Republic, Mali or Burkina-Faso where Russia is taking the lead.
Is Macron trying to counter Russia in certain French-speaking countries? Wonders The future.
For Christophe Lutundula, Minister of Foreign Affairs, adds Forum of Aces, Paris has
ability to do things better. To end the war in eastern DRC.
No doubt, indicates AfricaNewsthe support of French leaders for the Kagame regime angers the Congolese people.
The True Moderatorr title in its headline: “ Macron in Central Africa: We still attribute to France intentions that it does not have”.
The French President has started his tour in Africa. He has been staying in Gabon since Thursday where he is taking part in a summit on the protection of tropical forests.
At the start of his tour of the region, he
addressed to the French community in these terms:
« The age of Françafrique is over. France is now a neutral interlocutor on the continent”.
Rwandan aggression and others, loop Prosperity , on the arrival of Emmanuel Macron. Stating that nearly 150 civil society organizations reiterate the request for joint condemnation of M23.
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Charlotte July
