Africa: DRC Elections - Kabila's Perfectly Imperfect Choice of Successor

15 November 2018
analysis

The selection of Emmanuel Shadary to be the regime's presidential candidate has surprised many. None more so than Shadary himself.

On 27 October, presidential candidate Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary was officially presented to thousands of voters at the Kinshasa Stadium Tata Raphaël. In attendance to see him was a disparate crew of heavyweights from politics and business, all claiming to be members of the newly-minted Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC). Most were chauffeured there in government-issued vehicles and were under heavy police protection, adding to allegations the event benefited from state machinery.

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