FCC calls for political negotiations

Kinshasa, Paris, Brussels.
Le Soft International n°1549|Friday, April 1, 2022.

On December 6, 2020, the President of the Republic, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, solemnly declared the end of the FCC-CACH alliance, and here, after more than a year of observation, is the FCC (Common Front) Congo, making its voice heard.

“Fixed election process”.
It all started with a resounding declaration by former Chief of Staff Joseph Kabila Kabange on Congo’s popular French-language TV5 channel.

On March 19, 2022, passing through Paris, on the occasion of the launch of his book “The Democratic Republic of Congo under Joseph Kabila, the responsibility of memory”, Ed. Néhémie Wilanya Wilonja, a Harmattan and one of the captains of the Kabyle FCC, caused a great sensation.

“Joseph Kabila,” he declared, “is still a major player in politics after leaving office at the age of 47. He has a political family that he will have to take into account in all future elections. And, at 50, I don’t think he has retired yet. Currently, he is working to improve his political family and trying to get it out of its growing pains. Don’t give another rating to what you have witnessed.

It’s a little bit of vitality in his entire political family…”.
Asked more about announcing his return to power, the man with the unmistakable voice continued: “Nothing will stop him, but when the time comes, he himself will obviously have to decide together with his political family and the choice will be exercised in a democratic way. But all this must happen in a rectified electoral process, because at the moment the process is completely biased and we do not know how to continue our actions within this framework.
After this level of accountability in Paris, the FCC convened a meeting in Kinshasa. Nehemiah was on the front line.

But the speaker was a spokesman for the People’s Party for Renewal and Democracy (PPRD), the flagship party of the FCC, of ​​which Joseph Kabila is chairman.
Speaking on a commercial radio station in Kinshasa, François Nzekuye Kaburaza, national deputy and chairman of the Pan-Democratic Alliance parliamentary group in the lower house, continued Nehimi’s words: “We believe that the National Independent Electoral Commission will not be able to reassure all the contenders…” We want a consensual CENI, established in accordance with the law, so that the elections can be conducted in a free, transparent and fair way,” he declared on Top Congo fm.

Wouldn’t these complaints encourage changes and, in short, postponement of the elections? The MP responded: “We are not planning a slide. If there is good will, these conditions can be met in less than a month. Otherwise, we have the impression that this will be a training match and that our opponents are preparing to share positions with the European National Commission, which they control, and the Constitutional Court, which they control.

It continued: “We condemn the fact that the En Marche (Denis Kadima Kazadi, CÉNI president) is from the UDPS and that those in this office who claim to be from the Common Congolese Front are illegally invested and have no government authorization. We continue to condemn the fact that the Executive Secretary and the Deputy Executive Secretary (of CÉNI) are members of the UDPS and even blood family members of some executives of the Holy Alliance.

On March 26, former Minister of Health Dr. Felix Cabange Nubi gushed: “The FCC is keen on the participation of all stakeholders in the electoral process. This involves the reconstitution of the Bureau and Plenary of the National Electoral Council, a consensual electoral law and the re-establishment of the Constitutional Court in accordance with the law and the Constitution.”

Now everything is crystal clear. The Kabylists know how they worked in the past electoral processes by drawing up lists of elected councillors and they suspect that the new powers will be tempted by these methods, which will make them forgotten for a long time and will lead to their signing of their death warrant. They remember how their most symbolic people left them or will leave them, walk through the streets, occupy and take up sovereign positions without having to complain for a while. Quite the opposite…

So the FCC is rolling out a plan designed to get a head start on political negotiations from the powers that be, leading to major concessions from all sides.

We guarantee: “Nothing happened in the Pan-Pearl River Delta region.”
These senior executives have had time to put pressure on their leader, Senator for Life Joseph Kabila, whom they suspect has abandoned them and is only concerned with his “survival” and that of his biological family.
One of them warned: “It’s time he listened to us.”

For those who know him, it is uncertain whether Kabila will resist the wave of the last Mohicans. He witnessed the famous “growth crisis” of his own Pan-Democratic Alliance and its FCC bloc, but he did not give up when the youth movement announced for weeks in all media that the leader should step down.

Leading the way is Nehimi, but most importantly Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, permanent secretary of the Pan-Communist Democratic Alliance, the runner-up in the presidential elections of December 2018. These youth league movements do not lack strong arguments.

After the “exile” of the Constitutional Court and the president of the bench, Benoit Rwamba Bindu, and the unprecedented shift in parliamentary majority, the removal of Jeannine Mabunda Lioko Mudiayi, speaker of the lower house, and the defeat of Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, speaker of the House of Representatives, and the sacking of Sylvester Ilunga Ilunkamba, the prime minister of the upper house, the youth in the PP seized the opportunity to “advocate the emergence of new currents of thought within the PP”.

Renew and revitalize the political class by appointing people of integrity who cannot be manipulated. Democratize the PAS and update it in light of today’s problems and the terrible results we all know.

Leave behind all faces that are no longer consumed by public opinion. End the nepotism of the Honorary Permanent Secretary, Emmanuel Shadary,” said Mr Jimmy Ngalasi, the coordinator of these young people who call themselves “Force for Change”.

He declared that “the opposition leaders were leading Joseph Kabila to his demise, hoping to make the Pan-Communist Democratic Alliance a People’s Republic II”; “this struggle came after the party had experienced several institutional humiliations. Shadary’s departure was a reliable choice”; and that the war enjoyed “Joseph Kabila’s blessing.”

“Kabila is not interested in that.”
But in the Pan-PRD, we are on the side of these leaders and see everything in the right perspective. These “old guys” are not intimidated at all. In the Pan-PRD, nothing is happening. “, assured Ferdinand Kambere, one of the permanent secretaries of the former president’s party.

Also hits the nail on the head… “We will not follow everyone who wants to leave, they are playing the enemy card wherever they go. Whoever wants to leave, let him go. The delegates left. They will not be the first to leave. Kamerh left. Moses Katubey too. If someone decides that their desire is no longer in the party, we cannot stop them. People are free to join and they are free to leave.

“They chose a bad environment,” he added, confident of his party’s stability. “They believe they can destabilize the party, but the structures of the Pan-Communist Democratic Alliance are very, very sound. I don’t know where they will start to put pressure on the party’s national chairman, Joseph Kabila. They just need to go somewhere else for a walk.”

We are stable. We are poised.”
Then: “The PAC national chairman is watching what’s going on, but that’s not what he’s interested in. The party’s priorities are not what they say. A big party like ours, even if all these national deputies leave, the PAC will still be the strongest and biggest party at the time.”

Was he right? Of course, since then, everything in the Pan-Pearl Delta seems to have returned to normal. Except that Kambere was taken off the stage. A fight at a restaurant in the city landed him in court and he was subsequently arrested.

The prosecutor on March 7 requested the death penalty for the company’s senior executive, charged with attempted murder after “a young man from the Pan-Communist Democratic Alliance” filmed himself complaining after being punched and kicked by Kambere, his face bloodied. On March 17, the High Court sentenced him to six months of hard labour. Kambere appealed. As did the prosecutor. The Pan-Communist Democratic Alliance’s permanent secretary has been detained in Makara for three months and is waiting to know his fate.

For him, the trial made it clear to him that the movement calling itself a revolution was looking for his head. “He contacted me through the channels of Professor Nyabirungu. They praised the position and called it “juicy”. Not surprisingly, they took advantage of my detention to envy the position.

Then: “I’m being indicted for attempted murder. The prosecutor stammered. He didn’t have the elements to constitute attempted murder. I’m not being indicted for murder. Nobody’s dying here.”

If the hurricane calms down, the FCC still believes that the worst is yet to come for its executives. Fear of being removed from the next election could cause damage. Hence the call for negotiations to get out of the woods…
D. Dadai.