After 18 years, has sworn in the Congo, a new head of state: The 55-year-old Tshisekedi as President. His election victory was controversial, the EU, too, had doubts.
Felix Tshisekedi is sworn in as the fifth President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The 55-Year-old took his oath of office in the capital Kinshasa. The choice is considered from a historical point of Tshisekedi followed, after 18 years on the head of state, Joseph Kabila, who had led the country since the death of his father Laurent Kabila in 2001.
10. January, the candidate of the Opposition was appointed, surprisingly, by the election Commission as the winner of the vote in December. Kabila’s candidate Emmanuel ramazani was the photographer Shadary ended up a distant third. Both the second-placed opposition candidate, Martin Fayulu, as well as the Catholic Church reported doubt as to the result – as well as the African Union and the EU. The Congolese constitutional court confirmed, however, Tshisekedis election victory.