Trods massiv tilstedeværelse fra FN og millioner af dollars til at gennemføre et anstændigt demokratisk valg i det kæmpemæssige land i Afrikas hjerte vælter beskyldningerne ned over præsidenten for at have skrevet resultatet selv på forhånd.
A team of international observers has said irregularities in DR Congo’s presidential election were so serious that the results “lack credibility”, BBC online reports Sunday.
The official results announced Friday gave President Joseph Kabila 49 per cent of the vote against 32 per cent for opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi.
Mr Tshisekedi says he won the election and is the country’s president. He has urged supporters to stay calm. The opposition have announced plans to hold protest marches next week.
Four other opposition candidates have said the election was rigged and should be annulled.
In a statement, the Carter Center, which had 26 teams of observers monitoring the elections, pointed to differences in the vote count between areas where Mr Kabila had strong support and areas that favoured Mr Tshisekedi.
Some constituencies in Katanga province “reported impossibly high rates of 99 to 100 per cent voter turnout with all, or nearly all, votes going to incumbent President Joseph Kabila”, the Center said.
Meanwhile in Kinshasa, where Mr Tshisekedi has strong support, results from nearly 2.000 polling station stations were lost – roughly a fifth of the city’s total.
The 78-year-old opposition leader said the results were a “provocation”: – It is scandalous and vulgar. We have done our own calculations and I received 54 per cent to Kabila’s 26 per cent. His term is finished. I am the president, Mr Tshisekedi stated.
Mr Kabila, 40, has been president since 2001 following the assassination of his father, Laurent. In 2006 he won the first elections since the end of a five-year conflict and is due to be sworn in on 20 December for his second term.
But his victory must first be confirmed by the Supreme Court, BBC notes.
