President Felix Tshisekedi re-elected in DRC in election marred by irregularities

President Felix Tshisekedi re-elected in DRC in election marred by irregularities

President Felix chisaki has been reelected in the Democratic Republic of Congo official results uh show chisaki won just over 73% of the vote the election was marred by irregularities including major logistical setbacks which meant voting had to be extended by a day several opposition candidates have accused the government of fraud under

Are demanding a rerun they are now calling on their supporters to take to the streets in protest let’s get more on the story from our correspondent yonas ging joining us from the capital Kinshasa yonas can you tell us more about these results please yeah so Felix Jessi he got reelected with 30 70

73% and this is really by a large margin much more than he has had in the previous elections in 2019 the his strongest competitor MO katumi he has been the governor of the mining Province katanga a couple of years ago and he only had around 18% and other candidates such as the

Former competitor Martin fulu just had 5% and some people might know Dennis mcra he’s a um Nobel Peace Prize L but he didn’t even get 1% and opposition leaders they’ve alleged that these elections were rigged and they’ve called for Mass protests um what might those look

Like yeah I think we should still need to see what will actually happen because a couple of days ago they already called for the first protest these first protest they were forbidden and there were just a couple of dozens of protesters who showed up finally they faced uh the police and it’s really

Questionable whether there will be large scale protest and this is also because of like this huge uh result the the huge win of Felix chis and there have been actors such as the um Catholic and the pro Protestant Church they have they are considered as a watchdog in the dec and they already

Said that the general result are confirmed with their results there might be some some discussion on the precise figures but it sounds pretty incredible that Felix J actually won these elections and what about other International observers are looking at this Landslide result are they also saying that this was a free and fair

Election very good question the European Union they H they had a an observation Mission but finally they canceled their mission because they weren’t allowed to use all the the material that they wanted to use and so they are not many International International observers yet uh which which are still on the

Ground and so this makes little bit bit tricky to say there are a couple of irregularities but at the end of the day it looks like most of the people will go ahead with the results so there won’t be too much um questioning from many side there’s not too much questioning to be

Expected well thank you very much for your reporting that’s DW correspondent yonas ging in kinasa

Official results show Tshisekedi won just over 73% of the vote. The election was marred by irregularities, including major logistical setbacks which meant voting had to be extended by a day. Several opposition candidates have accused the government of fraud and are demanding a re-run. They are now calling on their supporters to take to the streets in protest.

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