Senator Modeste Bahati Lukwebo was elected on Tuesday, March 2, President of the Senate, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This former Minister of Planning and then of the Economy obtained 89 votes out of 108. Six members of the bureau of the Upper House of Parliament were also elected.
Bahati Lukwebo is none other than the informant appointed on December 31 by President Felix Tshisekedi to identify a new majority in the National Assembly after the end of the ruling coalition with former head of state Joseph Kabila.
Before approaching Tshisekedi, Senator Lukwebo was primarily an ally of Kabila. His movement, the Alliance of Democratic Forces of Congo (AFDC-A) was part of the former President’s Common Front for Congo (FCC).
The relationship between the two men was severed when in July 2019 Lukwebo applied for the presidency of the Senate, a post Kabila wanted for Alexis Thambwe Mwamba.
Thambwe Mwamba, who was finally elected head of the Senate, resigned on February 5, after the filing of several petitions targeting members of his office. He is thus replaced by Lukwebo. Revenge, have evoked some headlines in the local press.
In less than two months, three great figures from the FCC jumped from their posts at the head of high institutions. In addition to Thambwe Mwamba, Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba resigned at the end of January, after the vote of a motion of censure against him for “poor performance”, and the President of the National Assembly, Jeanine Mabunda, had been dismissed. at the beginning of December by the deputies.
These positions are now occupied by relatives of Tshisekedi; like what the latter has more and more free hands to implement his program.
By OMA Newsletter N ° 173 of 03/03/2021
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