Congo’s Least Bad Elections
On December 20, 2023, voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo headed to the polls for the fourth time since the end of the civil wars that ravaged the country between 1996 and 2003. Both Congo’s democracy and its sitting president, Félix Tshisekedi, faced a test: when Tshisekedi took the reins after the 2018 election, it marked the first time in the country’s democratic history that an incumbent had ceded power to an opposition party’s candidate relatively peacefully. But independent tallies suggested that Tshisekedi had not in fact received the most votes, and his legitimacy was in doubt from the moment he was sworn in.… Seguir leyendo »