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Viewing cable 06KINSHASA1654, DRC ELECTION CAMPAIGN UPDATE

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06KINSHASA1654 2006-10-26 14:03 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
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DE RUEHKI #1654/01 2991403
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O 261403Z OCT 06
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5041
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 001654 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
SUBJECT: DRC ELECTION CAMPAIGN UPDATE 
 
 
1. (U) Summary: Plans for a debate between President Kabila 
and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba have been scrapped 
because neither camp could agree on the format for the 
encounter. Neither Kabila nor Bemba has personally campaigned 
as the official campaign period comes to a close, although 
Bemba's MLC party had planned to hold a rally in Kinshasa on 
October 27, the final day of the campaign. All election 
materials reportedly have been delivered to the country's 
voting stations in advance of the October 29 vote. MONUC and 
Congolese security officials are continuing their patrols in 
Kinshasa and reinforcing their positions elsewhere in the 
country. The security situation remains calm, although 
scattered incidents of campaign-related violence have been 
reported in both the east and west. End summary. 
 
2. (U) The DRC's High Media Authority (HAM) announced October 
25 the planned October 26 debate between President Joseph 
Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba will not take 
place. HAM President Modeste Mutinga said in a press 
conference that because neither candidate's camp could agree 
on the format of the debate, the Media Authority would be 
unable to organize the event. According to Mutinga, Kabila's 
representatives wanted each candidate to be recorded 
separately, though responding to the same questions from the 
same journalists. Bemba's camp had wanted a one-on-one debate 
to be moderated by a pre-selected panel of journalists. 
 
3. (U) The proposed debate would have been one of the only 
second-round campaign appearances by either Kabila or Bemba. 
Neither candidate has left Kinshasa in October, leaving the 
work of campaigning in the provinces to others. Olive Kabila, 
the president's wife, just completed a country-wide tour on 
her husband's behalf, visiting the provinces of Orientale, 
North and South Kivu, and Katanga, as well as Eastern and 
Western Kasai. Bemba has been represented by his father, who 
is currently campaigning for him in Orientale province. 
High-ranking party and government officials have also been 
busily stumping for both candidates throughout the country. 
The official campaign period ends at midnight October 27. 
 
4. (SBU) Bemba-controlled television station CCTV had 
announced the Vice President would hold a Kinshasa rally 
October 27 at Tata Raphael stadium, where violence occurred 
after a similar event July 27 in the run-up to first-round 
elections on July 30. A senior official of Bemba's Movement 
for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) indicated October 26 the 
party has canceled the rally but we are awaiting final 
confirmation. A youth group supporting Bemba and his Union 
for the Nation coalition marched through the streets of 
Kinshasa October 25 without any major incident. 
 
5. (U) MONUC deputy spokesman Jean-Tobie Okala said October 
25 that all election kits have been delivered to the 50,045 
polling sites across the country. Each kit contains the 
entire set-up material for a polling station, including 
ballot boxes, voting booths, tally sheets, and ballots. Okala 
said the delivery of material was especially difficult for 
the second round as much of the country is in the rainy 
season, thereby making many roads impassable. 
 
6. (U) Several minor incidents of campaign-related violence 
have been reported in the past few days. In Equateur 
province, Radio Okapi reported that Kabila ally Nzanga Mobutu 
was stoned by protesters while holding a campaign meeting in 
Yakoma. Partisans of Bemba and Kabila engaged in fistfights 
and rock-throwing in the Bandundu city of Kikwit. Police were 
eventually called in to disperse the crowds and fired warning 
shots into the air. Kikwit's mayor has called for both sides 
to restrain their supporters in the last days of the 
campaign. Radio Okapi also reported that in Katanga province 
a stock of Bemba posters being stored at the Kamina airport 
was destroyed in a fire. 
 
7. (U) Bemba's deputy campaign director Pastor Theodore Ngoy 
was harassed again while campaigning in Lubumbashi October 
24. While driving to a campaign meeting, Radio Okapi reported 
that a crowd of presumed pro-Kabila supporters stoned his 
convoy and later set fire to Ngoy's meeting place. Several 
people were reportedly injured during the incidents. MLC 
supporters also were reported to have defaced and burned 
Kabila posters in the city. 
 
8. (U) MONUC military spokesman Lt. Col. Stephane Lescoffit 
said that MONUC and EUFOR, in cooperation with Congolese 
police and military units, are continuing to monitor the 
security situation. Lescoffit said joint security patrols to 
 
KINSHASA 00001654  002 OF 002 
 
 
reduce weapons circulation in Kinshasa are still active. To 
date the "weapons-free Kinshasa" patrols have been 
instrumental in the arrests of 140 people and the 
confiscation of 34 weapons. MONUC military observers in 
Kinshasa monitoring military camps and installations have 
reported no unusual activity. In Ituri District, MONUC 
peacekeepers have deployed several mobile operating bases in 
the region to ensure that MONUC forces can respond 
immediately to any possible violence. 
MEECE