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Viewing cable 07KINSHASA72, BEMBA'S MLC WINS HALF OF KINSHASA'S SENATE SEATS

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07KINSHASA72 2007-01-23 10:15 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO5481
PP RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #0072/01 0231015
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 231015Z JAN 07
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5453
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PRIORITY
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 000072 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
SUBJECT: BEMBA'S MLC WINS HALF OF KINSHASA'S SENATE SEATS 
 
REF: KINSHASA 66 
 
1.  (U)  Jean-Pierre Bemba's MLC won four of eight seats in 
Kinshasa's senatorial delegation in a vote by provincial 
assembly deputies January 19.  Bemba himself came first in 
the poll of the 48 deputies, followed closely by MLC 
officials Bernadette Nkoy Mafuta and Eve Bazaiba.  President 
Kabila's PPRD won two seats, with Azarias Ruberwa's RCD and 
an independent candidate splitting the remaining pair. 
 
2.  (U) The Kinshasa delegation in the new Senate will 
include two current ministers, Moise Nyarugabo (RCD) and 
Romain Nimy (MLC), and two former governors of Kinshasa, Nkoy 
Mafuta (MLC), who served in the Mobutu era, and David Nku 
Imbie (PPRD), a Joseph Kabila appointee.  The MLC's Nkoy 
Mafuta and Bazaiba will be two of only five women in the 
108-member Senate. 
 
3.  (U) Of the 241 Kinshasa candidates listed for the Senate, 
only 13 received votes.  Each deputy was allowed to cast a 
single vote, and the 27 from the MLC maintained party 
discipline to elect four of their eight candidates.  They 
gave nine votes to Bemba, eight each to Nkoy Mafuta and 
Bazaiba, and two to Nimy.  The PPRD elected two of its five 
candidates with a total of 10 votes, despite counting only 
eight deputies in the 48-member assembly. 
 
4. (U) A prominent casualty of the vote was former 
presidential candidate Wivine Nlandu, who ran as an 
independent.  She had joined Bemba's Union pour la Nation 
campaign coalition as permanent secretary, and, running 
outside her natural constituency in Bas-Congo, received no 
votes.  Key Kabila allies, including Mbusa Nyamwisi's Forces 
du Renouveau and Mobutu Nzanga's UDEMO, had no deputies in 
the assembly and were likewise shut out. 
 
5. (U) Biographical information: 
 
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo (MLC) 
 
MLC president Bemba, 44, asserts ambitions to create a viable 
political opposition to the new government.  He finished 
second to Joseph Kabila in the October presidential 
elections.  Bemba was vice president for economic and 
financial affairs during the transition.  He once commanded 
forces which controlled almost one-third of the country 
before agreeing at Sun City to convert the MLC from a rebel 
movement to a political party.  He retains interest in major 
Congolese transportation and communications enterprises.  The 
son of Jeannot Bemba, one of Congo's richest men, he was 
educated in Belgium for 20 years and has a degree in 
economics from the Catholic Institute of Commerce.  Born 
November 4, 1962. 
 
Bernadette Nkoy Mafuta (MLC) 
 
Nkoy Mafuta, 58, is MLC national secretary for women's 
issues.  During the presidential campaign she was in charge 
of public relations for Bemba's electoral coalition, l'Union 
pour la Nation (UN).  She was governor of Kinshasa from 
August 1996 to May 1997 and is remembered for promoting 
public health programs before being replaced by a military 
governor in the final days of the Mobutu era.  Born October 
14, 1948. 
 
Eve Bazaiba Masudi (MLC) 
 
Bazaiba, 41, is a former UDPS official who was expelled from 
the party for running for the National Assembly in the July 
2006 elections.  After failing in her bid for an Assembly 
seat, she joined Bemba's UN.  She gained notoriety during the 
campaign for incendiary statements questioning the integrity 
of the electoral process.  Born August 12, 1966. 
 
Moise Nyarugabo Muhizi (RCD) 
 
Nyarugabo, 41, was named transitional economy minister in 
October 2006.  Previously leader of the RCD parliamentary 
group, he was an unsuccessful National Assembly candidate in 
the July legislative elections.  A Tutsi lawyer from Uvira, 
South Kivu, he was formerly director of the RCD department of 
justice, human rights and conflict resolution.  He was 
director of OBMA, Laurent Kabila's "office of ill-gotten 
gains," before breaking with Kabila and joining the RCD 
rebellion.  Unlike many in the RCD, he appears to have 
maintained loyalty to RCD president Ruberwa.  Born January 5, 
1966. 
 
KINSHASA 00000072  002 OF 002 
 
 
 
David Nku Imbie (PPRD) 
 
Nku Imbie, 54, is medical director of the Salvation Army's 
Congo branch and a practicing physician.  He served as 
governor of Kinshasa from June 2002 to May 2004.  Born July 
28, 1952. 
 
Ignace Ndebo a Kanda (PPRD) 
 
Ndebo, 53, is president of the PPRD youth league.  He is the 
son of former Kivu Governor Ndebo a Kanda de ne Nkega, a 
staunch Mobutist from Equateur.  Born December 29, 1953. 
 
Romain Nimy Tembo (MLC) 
 
Nimy, 49, was named transitional agriculture minister in 
October 2006.  He is MLC national secretary for reform 
issues.  He served as chief of staff to his late brother 
Roger during the latter's time as youth and sports minister. 
He was a signatory to the November 2006 public appeal by 
Bakongo notables for pre-trial release of Bemba associate 
Marie-Therese Nlandu, detained on charges of subversion. 
Born July 22, 1957. 
 
Innocent Nkongo Budini Nzau (Independent) 
 
Nkongo, 57, has not been previously active in politics.  A 
practicing lawyer, he is the senior attorney accredited 
before the Kinshasa-Gombe court of appeals.  He is the 
current secretary-general of the Franco-Congolese chamber of 
commerce and industry.  Born November 5, 1949. 
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