“Profil d'un bon candidat: n'a pas commis de crimes de guerre, crimes contre l'humanité ou crimes économiques.”
(Characteristics of a good candidate: has not committed war crimes, crimes against humanity or economic crimes.)
You would not expect this kind of statement to be controversial. And yet… The reaction from my Congolese colleagues on reading it: “Pfff ! C’est personne, ça !”
This election presents no less 32 presidential candidates (1 withdrew already) and thirteen thousand candidates for the National Assembly – surely some of them can meet the profile!
But as the women in a small village near Bukavu pointed out, “the only picture we recognise is Kabila’s.” Other candidates have to hope voters remember their candidate number and page number…
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