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Viewing cable 06KINSHASA937, MANAGING THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN IN THE DRC'S

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06KINSHASA937 2006-06-14 08:45 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO8285
PP RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR
DE RUEHKI #0937/01 1650845
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 140845Z JUN 06
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4114
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 000937 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O.12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM KPAO CG ELECTIONS
SUBJECT: MANAGING THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN IN THE DRC'S 
ELECTIONS 
 
 
Sensitive But Unclassified.  Not for Internet 
distribution. 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: The GDRC has reportedly agreed to fund a 
much-reduced budget, which would allow the High Media 
Authority (HAM) to provide for minimal fair media coverage 
to the 33 presidential candidates.  The more than 9,700 
legislative and 12,300 provincial candidates, however, 
will likely be left to their own devices to get the 
attention of voters.  The GDRC's decision to fund the HAM 
coincides with the June 10-12 visit to Kinshasa of the 
UNSC delegation.  Should the government's promise to fund 
not be kept, the HAM will look to donor countries in the 
days before the opening of the official election campaign 
on June 29.  HAM President Modeste Mutinga argues that his 
failure to assure media coverage to all 33 candidates 
would provide one more reason for voters to contest the 
election results.  End Summary. 
 
2. (SBU) Along with the Independent Electoral Commission 
(CEI), the High Media Authority (Haute Autorite des Medias 
- HAM) was created by the Sun City Accord as a guarantor 
institution of the DRC's new democracy, independent of 
government.  Consistent with that role, the HAM organized 
a series of broadcast debates on the DRC's constitutional 
referendum in December 2005.  The Electoral Law of 2006 
mandates the HAM to provide candidates with equal access 
to the media during the official (30-day) campaign and 
make opposition to unacceptable content (arts. 33 and 35). 
However, as HAM President Modeste Mutinga told an ad hoc 
group of donor representatives on June 8, the budget for 
elections seems to have overlooked entirely the HAM's 
role.  Reducing his original budget request from USD 4 
million to USD 0.5 million, and focusing only on the 
presidential contest, Mutinga in early June appealed 
directly to VP Jean-Pierre Bemba, who presides over the 
GDRC's finances.  Bemba's reply, according to Mutinga, was 
to suggest that the HAM get its money from the CEI, which 
itself has little, if any, to spare. 
 
Getting the Ear of the UNSC 
--------------------------- 
 
3. (U) In his meeting with the visiting UNSC delegation on 
June 11 (septel), Modeste Mutinga reportedly sounded the 
alarm about how television and radio stations under the 
control of some presidential candidates - including the 
current president and VPs - are inciting ethnic 
intolerance and hatred.  Mutinga reportedly cited the 
nefarious role of hate media in Rwanda and Ivory Coast. 
 
4. (U) While the UNSC delegation was still in Kinshasa 
came the news that the GDRC would provide the USD 0.5 
million requested by the HAM after all.  According to its 
draft budget, this money would enable the HAM to provide 
each presidential candidate with two debate appearances 
(debating four other candidates selected by lottery) and 
three five-minute campaign messages, spread over 34 radio 
and television stations, from June 29 to July 28 when the 
"official" campaign period ends.  The budget would also 
allow the HAM to monitor objectionable content of other 
media during this time. 
 
What About the Legislative Elections? 
------------------------------------- 
 
5. (SBU) In their June 8 meeting, HAM President Mutinga 
showed the donor representatives a stack of about 200 
pages which, he said, was the schedule for debates and 
campaign messages the HAM had devised for the candidates 
for the National Assembly in Kinshasa alone.  He said he 
had no money to photocopy the pages, let alone pay for the 
media access.  He said he hoped a somewhat structured 
presidential campaign, representing the major party 
leaders, would somehow help keep the legislative races in 
tow.  He said he was gratified that USAID-funded NDI was 
proposing to finance some selected debates among 
legislative candidates in the provinces. 
 
6. (SBU) UN-sponsored Radio Okapi, which covers about 70 
percent of the DRC, has already begun featuring candidates 
and debates, and its broadcasts are further picked up by 
about a dozen associated radio stations.  Since October, 
in fact, Radio Okapi has given access to political 
 
KINSHASA 00000937  002 OF 002 
 
 
parties.  The HAM has complained that Radio Okapi has 
prematurely commenced its election campaign reporting. 
However, as Okapi Director Yves LaPlume told PAO on June 
12, his radio distinguishes between the election campaign 
and the "official" campaign.  Furthermore, he noted, 
especially given the number of candidates, the latter, at 
30 days, is far too short and a disservice to voters.  Not 
surprisingly, then, Radio Okapi is not among the 34 
selected by the HAM to produce aspects of the official 
media campaigns. 
 
7. (SBU) Consistent with its mandate, we have heard that 
the HAM also fleetingly tried to convince the 
international media outlets in the DRC (Agence France 
Presse, Reuters and others) to give equal treatment to the 
33 presidential candidates in a request which was not 
taken seriously by them. 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
8. (SBU) Is the HAM destined to whistle in the wind?  A 
media campaign with so many candidates (more than 9,700 
legislative and 12,300 provincial candidates alone) and 
political parties (more than 200) is probably ungovernable 
by just one entity.  Some observers contend that the HAM 
should rather limit itself to monitoring and sanctioning 
hate-mongering, and get out of the business of also 
spooning out air time in equal doses to admittedly vastly 
unequal candidates.  Moreover, most of the serious 
presidential candidates have their own radio and 
television stations, and have started campaigning. 
 
9. (SBU) Still, as Modeste Mutinga told us on June 8, if 
the HAM is not seen by the voters as doing what the law 
says it should - clock candidates' official air time and 
react to the contents of their speech - then that could be 
handing the spoilers another reason to cry foul.  And as 
the campaign temperature rises, any attempt at orderly 
procedure and structure could have a calming effect. 
MEECE