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· The Democratic Republic of Congo elected a supporter of President Felix Tshisekedi as the next Senate leader yesterday
· With the election of Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, the camp of the former head of state, Joseph Kabila has been eclipsed
· He garnered 89 votes, an absolute majority of votes, and became the President of the Senate, the provisional President of the upper house of the Congolese Parliament. The Senate has 109 members
The Democratic Republic of Congo elected a supporter of President Felix Tshisekedi as the next Senate leader yesterday. With the election of Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, the camp of the former head of state, Joseph Kabila has been eclipsed. He garnered 89 votes, an absolute majority of votes, and became the President of the Senate, the provisional President of the upper house of the Congolese Parliament. The Senate has 109 members.
Bahati ( 65) has served as minister of former President Joseph Kabila on several occasions. In January, Senator Bahati fulfilled the mission entrusted to him by President Tshisekedi to constitute a new majority of the “Sacred Union of the Nation” in his favor in the National Assembly to remove supporters of former President Kabila. They were grouped within his Common Front for the Congo (FCC) coalition.
With the election of Bahati, President Tshisekedi has placed his supporters at the head of the country’s three most important political institutions. Christophe Mboso was elected President of the National Assembly and Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde is now Prime Minister. With these changes the new government will be entirely composed of supporters of the head of state. The previous team was largely dominated by Kabila’s supporters.
