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WILL THE DR CONGO GOVERNMENT COLLAPSE?

  1. Posted on Wednesday 25 March 2009 - 03:22
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    The young democracy of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been put on test. The national assembly is now supposed to show the really meaning of democracy that spells in the country's name.
    Having been elected on an Alliance of Presidential Majority's (AMP) ticket, the speaker of the national assembly is under pressure to resign. The many calls for his resignation come amid loud complaints of the President decision to allow the joint military operation by the Congolese and Rwandese armies to flash out the FDLR (Rwandese rebels) without consulting the legislative arm of power.
    Vital Kamerhe who had campaigned enormously for Joseph kabila's during the last general elections, is being forced to resign by the highest organ of the AMP after he publicly criticized the move by the president and also lured other AMP members in the protests against the President.

    Those pushing for his resignation had boycotted some sessions of the assembly but have resumed since. It is believed that the calls from his resignation are orchestrated by politicians from the president's ethnic group who have being against the rise to power of people not coming from their ethnic group.

    Kamerhe has offered to resign only if a motion of no confidence is passed against him in parliament. He is strongly supported by the diplomatic corps in Kinshasa .

    French President, Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to DR Congo is also an effort by the international community to ease the tense situation between the President and the Speaker of the national assembly. Another high profile figure to be involved in the matter is former Ireland president Mary Robinson.
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