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Viewing cable 06KINSHASA1701, DRC ELECTION AUTHORITIES SEEKS TO AVOID ABUSE OF PARTIAL

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06KINSHASA1701 2006-11-03 11:06 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO8665
PP RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #1701/01 3071106
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 031106Z NOV 06
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5104
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 001701 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O.12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM KPAO CG ELECTIONS
SUBJECT: DRC ELECTION AUTHORITIES SEEKS TO AVOID ABUSE OF PARTIAL 
ELECTION RESULTS 
 
REF:  KINSHASA 1689 
 
Sensitive but Unclassified.  Not for Internet Distribution. 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: Representatives of presidential candidates Kabila 
and Bemba signed an agreement November 1 not to publish partial 
election results.  Two newspapers have been suspended by the High 
Media Authority (HAM) for abusive extrapolation of partial results. 
HAM President Mutinga has reportedly lowered his profile in the face 
of apparent threats. Despite the efforts of many, including our 
Embassy, it will be hard to keep the genie of provocative election 
results in the bottle. End Summary 
 
The CEI/HAM Agreement on (Not) Reporting Results 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
 
2. (U) Representatives of presidential candidates President Joseph 
Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba signed an agreement 
November 1 pledging to avoid publication of partial election 
results.  Kabila advisers Samba Kaputo and Marcellin Cishambo signed 
for the president, and MLC officials Jean Lucien Bussa and Romain 
Nimy signed for Bemba.  Also signing the agreement were the 
president of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) Apollinaire 
Malu Malu, and the president of the High Media Authority (HAM) 
Modeste Mutinga.  They did so in the presence of DSRSG Ross 
Mountain. 
 
3. (U) The agreement also reminds political and social groups that 
they are proscribed from extrapolating from partial results to 
announce the victory of either (presidential) candidate, before the 
CEI officially announces provisional results (expected before 
November 19). 
 
HAM Action to Keep the Genie in the Bottle 
------------------------------------------ 
 
4. (U)  On November 1 and 2, the HAM suspended two Kinshasa 
newspapers for 30 days, respectively, pro-UDPS Alerte Plus, for 
headlining that Bemba had won and taken power, and Top Info for 
publishing made-up results. 
 
5. (SBU) An electronic journal called Congoindependant.com, 
published in Brussels by a group of Congolese journalists, has also 
published at least one article extrapolating a victory for 
Jean-Pierre Bemba, based on a seemingly scientific sampling of 
partial results.  The article's statistics have been picked up by an 
unidentified source, who is sending them out via text messages to 
the DRC. It attributes the statistics to the U.S. Embassy.  (Note: 
Immediately after the first round of elections, July 30, crude 
tracts appeared in Kinshasa with bogus results attributed to both 
USAID and Vatican Radio. End note.) 
 
6. (SBU) Meanwhile, the president of the High Media Authority, 
Modeste Mutinga, has been obliged to take some evasive action in 
response to reported threats made against him. International media 
NGO PANOS is paying for extra security and lodgings elsewhere in 
town for Mutinga.  PANOS and the French Embassy report that the 
threats seem to be prompted by the fact that the HAM (despite 
considerable effort on its part) was not able to organize a 
televised debate between Kabila and Bemba. Another reason is said to 
be the HAM's failure to get state television RTNC to air a promised 
interview with Bemba on October 27 (reftel).  Mutinga reportedly 
takes some pride in the fact that the resulting suspension he 
imposed on RTNC is yet another reason for threats, these coming from 
the other side of the political spectrum. 
 
7. (U) At the request of the CEI, PAO formally addressed 100 
journalists October 24, at the CEI press center, on their 
responsibilities with respect to the handling of partial election 
results, a subject we have covered in several of our Embassy's many 
workshops for journalists throughout the country this year.  HAM 
president Mutinga reiterated the message at the signing ceremony on 
November 1. 
 
8. (SBU) Comment: Journalists by and large seek, sometimes 
valiantly, to exercise restraint and responsibility in handling 
partial election results.  Those working for partisan media 
especially complain to us that their political paymasters have other 
ideas, however.  In the DRC, political campaigning seems curiously 
to be more a post-election phenomenon. Political pressures are such, 
therefore, that some partial election results will be published 
prematurely and/or erroneously, notwithstanding the November 1 
agreement. Once the CEI starts to publish confirmed partial results 
on its website, which we expect to happen soon, the manipulation of 
bogus partial results will dissipate.  Tension over the outcome, 
 
KINSHASA 00001701  002 OF 002 
 
 
however, will not. End comment. 
MEECE