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DRC: Legal Void after June 30

Thursday, April 13th, 2006 @ 07:20 UTC

by Alice Backer

Countries:: D.R. of Congo
Topics:: Elections, Governance, Law, Protest, International Relations, Politics

Transitional institutions stop being constitutional after June 30, 2006, writes (FR) blogger Mafelly-Makombo at Prince du Fleuve du Congo. He suggests that if elections should take place past that date, all of Congolese civil society including political parties and religious groups aided by the international community should be called on to negociate a new electoral calendar. Barring that kind of consensus the blogger suggests the Congolese people might “take to the streets.”

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[...] Today UDPS Liege echoes an AFP article announcing the presidential election will take place July 30. The election was postponed for a year last June and the July 30 date is later than the June 30 deadline mandated by various transitional laws. [...]

# 2006-04-30 at 21:08 pm

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