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Viewing cable 07KINSHASA130, ELECTORAL COMMISSION POSTPONES GUBERNATORIAL VOTE

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07KINSHASA130 2007-02-01 14:31 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO5115
PP RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #0130/01 0321431
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 011431Z FEB 07
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5535
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 000130 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
SUBJECT: ELECTORAL COMMISSION POSTPONES GUBERNATORIAL VOTE 
IN DRC'S KASAI PROVINCES 
 
REF: KINSHASA 102 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: The DRC's Independent Electoral Commission 
(CEI) January 26 postponed the scheduled January 27 election 
for governors and vice governors in the two Kasai provinces 
until February 10. The ruling followed challenges alleging 
two prominent candidates possessed dual nationality in 
violation of Congolese law. The case raises the delicate 
question of dual nationality and could potentially affect 
many of the DRC's newly-elected officials. End summary. 
 
2. (SBU) Two members of President Kabila's Alliance for the 
Presidential Majority (AMP) have demanded the 
disqualification of the opposition Movement for the 
Liberation of Congo (MLC) gubernatorial candidates in Eastern 
and Western Kasai provinces for possessing dual nationality 
in violation of Congolese law. Tresor Kapuku, the AMP 
coalition candidate for governor of Western Kasai, introduced 
formal allegations against his MLC rival, Alex Kande, in a 
January 23 letter to the CEI provincial coordinator, charging 
that Kande is a Belgian citizen and therefore should not be 
allowed to run. Kapuku reportedly provided the CEI proof of 
Kande's Belgian citizenship obtained from the Belgian 
parliament's web site. 
 
3. (U) On January 24, Lambert Mende, the national president 
of the AMP-affiliated CCU political party and "rapporteur" of 
the Transitional Senate, filed a similar complaint with 
Western Kasai CEI officials. Mende's letter made the same 
allegations against Kande and added similar charges against 
Dominique Kanku, the outgoing governor of Eastern Kasai who 
is running to retain the office. 
 
4. (SBU) The national CEI responded to Kapuku's and Mende's 
allegations in a January 25 letter from its 3rd Vice 
President Crispin Kakonde, who is the delegate representing 
the pro-Kabila PPRD on the Commission. Kakonde wrote to the 
MLC and the national coordinator of Jean-Pierre Bemba's Union 
for the Nation (UfN) alliance asking them to withdraw Kande's 
and Kanku's names and replace them with different candidates. 
CEI President Apollinaire Malu Malu was out of the country 
when Kakonde wrote on behalf of the Commission. 
 
5. (U) Kakonde's letter provoked a sharp response January 26 
from the CEI's 1st Vice President Rose-Marie Mika, the MLC 
representative. Mika wrote that the CEI is "not competent" to 
address legal issues pertaining to candidacies and declared 
that Kakonde's request was annulled. She noted that Kakonde 
was unaware of information indicating Kande had relinquished 
his Belgian citizenship in 2004. 
 
6. (U) MLC and UfN officials declined to remove their 
candidates' names and filed a petition with the Court of 
Appeals in the Eastern Kasai capital of Mbuji-Mayi. The court 
immediately ruled January 26 that Kanku's name would be 
allowed to remain on the ballot and that the CEI decision to 
invalidate his candidacy was annulled. Faced with these 
responses, the CEI's executive board met late January 26 and 
decided to postpone the gubernatorial elections in both Kasai 
provinces until February 10 to allow further examination of 
the issues and court ruling. 
 
7. (SBU) The DRC's electoral law prohibits anyone without 
Congolese nationality from running for office. The DRC's 2005 
Constitution and 2004 Nationality Law both state that 
Congolese nationality is "exclusive" and cannot be held 
concurrently with another. Under Article 26 of the 
nationality law, any Congolese national who acquires a 
foreign nationality loses his or her Congolese nationality. 
The nationality law's implicit intention was to prohibit 
"Rwandans" from becoming Congolese citizens. 
 
8. (SBU) Documents on the public website of "Le Moniteur 
Belge" show Kande was granted naturalization January 14, 
2003, and Kanku on April 4, 2003. It is unknown whether 
either candidate renounced his Belgian citizenship after the 
DRC's nationality law passed in 2004. Both Kande and Kanku 
claim to have done so, but have not offered any evidence. 
 
9. (SBU) The legal challenges themselves are not likely to 
succeed, if only for technical reasons. Both Kande and Kanku 
were elected July 30 as National Assembly deputies, and no 
challenge was previously brought to question their 
nationalities. Once elected, their mandates were validated by 
the Supreme Court and the Assembly itself, again without 
 
KINSHASA 00000130  002 OF 002 
 
 
challenge. Finally, as MLC officials have pointed out, the 
deadline for challenging any gubernatorial candidacy has long 
passed. 
 
10. (U) The attempted invalidation of Kande's and Kanku's 
candidacies has sparked a heated and acrimonious debate in 
Kinshasa. Many newspapers in the capital are seized with the 
topic, with some going so far as to name elected officials 
believed to hold dual nationalities. Other reports claimed as 
many as one-third of National Assembly deputies may have 
their seats revoked if their "true identities" are 
discovered. Jose Makila, an MLC deputy recently elected 
governor of Equateur province, told reporters January 31 he 
supported the creation of a commission of inquiry to 
investigate claims of Assembly members and other government 
officials having dual nationality. The Assembly's leadership 
has not commented publicly on the proposal. 
 
11. (SBU) Comment: It has been an open secret for years that 
many senior government officials from all parties possess 
dual citizenship. No party has previously tried to disqualify 
candidates from other parties, knowing full well that the 
issue would boomerang on them. Mende and Kapuku have opened a 
Pandora's Box that cannot be easily shut. It is not clear if 
either was working independently or with the authorization of 
the AMP leadership. In any case, all of the major parties 
stand to lose if this issue moves to its logical conclusion. 
End comment. 
MEECE