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Viewing cable 09BRAZZAVILLE206, CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: CAMPAIGN UPDATE, 7 JULY

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09BRAZZAVILLE206 2009-07-08 15:29 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Brazzaville
P 081529Z JUL 09
FM AMEMBASSY BRAZZAVILLE
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1470
INFO AFRICOM
AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY ROME PRIORITY 
USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY BERLIN PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS PRIORITY 
USEU BRUSSELS PRIORITY 0026
AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE
AMEMBASSY BRAZZAVILLE
UNCLAS BRAZZAVILLE 000206 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
DEPT FOR AF/C 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM CF
SUBJECT: CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: CAMPAIGN UPDATE, 7 JULY 
 
Sassou's Juggernaut Rolls Along 
 
1. (SBU) President Sassou-Nguesso is dominating the campaign.  In Brazzaville, his commercials flood television and the radio.  Pro-Sassou rallies, as yet without the candidate, occur almost  every day and draw hundreds of people, often drawn by popular musicians hired from Kinshasa.  Sassou T-shirts are visible all over town, masses of white at rallies, of course, but also on the backs of many ordinary Congolese as they go about their day-to-day business.  Large flatbed trucks draped in pro-Sassou 
plumage lumber through town, music blaring from attached speakers and pro-Sassou emcees preaching the word.  Opposition complaints that he is bribing the electorate were cogently reflected in a banner we saw, which advertised the candidacy of Liberal Republican Party Candidate Nicephore "Nick" Fylla de 
Saint-Eudes: "Today:  A beer and a 2000 Franc Note.  And Tomorrow?" Opposition signs and banners can be found around town, but opposition T-shirts and hats are all but invisible. 
 
2. (SBU) Sassou has been touring the country continuously since the start of campaigning, traveling with his wife and entourage in planes, helicopters and convoys of SUVs to visit 29 localities, mostly in the south, in the first nine days.  At each stop, according to the pro-government "Les Depeches de 
Brazzaville" newspaper, the president tells audiences of his vision of the "Road to the Future," the central theme of his campaign.  "If elected," the man who has served as Congo's president for all but five of the past 30 years promises to build trade schools for carpenters, to develop tourism, to mechanize agriculture and to combat youth unemployment. 
 
3. (SBU) For most of the rest of the week, the president will concentrate his efforts in the south from his second campaign headquarters in Dolisie before concluding the campaign on Friday in Brazzaville.  Sassou is to conclude with a rally on the boulevard between the National Assembly and the Foreign Ministry that is expected to draw many thousands. 
 
Sassou Stoned? 
 
4. (SBU) A French TV5 press report that President Sassou was met by a rock-throwing crowd in the Pool department village of Mbe on Saturday 4 July may be misleading.  True, the villagers from the Teke ethnic group of opposition candidate Mathias Dzon did jeer and throw rocks at the Sassou rally.  But the target of their wrath, according to FSN security assistant who has family in the area, reportedly was the unpopular local sous-prefet who introduced Sassou. 
 
Opposition Calls for Peace Dialogue 
 
5. (SBU) The candidates of the Front of the Parties of the Opposition (FPOC, known by most as the Opposition Front and by the government as "the radical opposition") at a July 3 press conference called for a "peace dialogue" sometime before July 12 to bring together all 13 presidential candidates to share 
concerns-and evidence-that the elections will not be free and fair and thus make the case that they should thus be postponed.  Two opposition candidates not affiliated with the Front on July 
6 called for the elections to be postponed in a meeting with Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization Raymond Mboulou. 
 
6. (SBU) Comment:  The Opposition Front seems more confused than ever.  While consistent in highlighting the ways the vote looks to be rigged and calling for an elections delay so the problems 
can be fixed, the Opposition seems to be adjusting its  statements on an almost daily basis.  From speaking consistently of an eleventh hour boycott, Front leaders last week then called on people to bang on pots and pans in the middle of the night.  The next day retired army general and Front supporter Emmanuel Ngouelondele Mongo (who was formerly very close to Sassou) called for civil disobedience and a boycott.  And now, the Front is calling for a "concertation" to gripe about their predicament.  We still think the Front candidates will call for a last minute boycott, but they are not showing much 
decisiveness.  We will attend a Front rally later today to get the latest installment. 
 
Dueling Rallies 
 
7. (SBU) The three Opposition Front candidates-Mathias Dzon, E Clement Mierassa and Guy-Roman Kinfoussia-later today will hold a joint rally at the Massamba Debat Stadium, about a half mile 
west of the Embassy.   Opposition hopes for a large turnout at the stadium rally could be frustrated by a pro-Sassou rally featuring at least five bands, including from Congo-Kinshasa, which is being held at the same time in the Talangai neighborhood about three miles northwest of the Embassy. 
 
Getting Out of Dodge 
 
8. (SBU) We have been receiving numerous reports in recent days of Congolese trying to move to safer areas during the elections period out of a fear of violence.  The most affected areas include those most hurt by the violence of Congo's civil war, mainly south Brazzaville, the Pool region in central Congo and 
the Dolisie area of southern Congo, as well as opposition leader Dzon's home area in Plateau department.  A train headed from Brazzaville to Pointe Noire over the weekend was so packed with 
passengers that two infants suffocated.  FSN rumors indicated that all flights from Brazzaville to Pointe Noire had been cancelled, but when RSO checked out the report he learned that  flights had not been canceled, but were fully booked and thatBrazzaville airport is crowded with people hoping to fly standby. 
 
Government Warns Opposition...and Diplomats 
 
9. (SBU) As the elections approach, the government has stepped up warnings to the opposition against violence and civil disobedience.  On July 3, in the wake of General Ngouelondele Mongo's call for an elections boycott and civil disobedience, President Sassou's spokesman warned that "civil disobedience is not constitutional and is considered a crime."  The day before  the vice president of the Superior Council for Freedom ofCommunication had warned that "the law prohibits you from spreading messages not in harmony with the consolidation of peace and national unity."  Madame Sassou on July 6 publicly criticized the movement of people, saying that it unnecessary because there will be no violence and the population movements are being promoted by the Opposition. 
 
10. (SBU) On July 7, Foreign Minister Basile Ikouebe, along with Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization Mboulou, convoked the diplomatic corps to defend Congo-Brazzaville's elections process and criticize the opposition for fanning fears of violence and "manipulating" people to flee their homes.  They said the opposition also was attempting to "seduce" foreign diplomats and manipulate the 
population into thinking they were supported by the international community.  The government, however, would contain any outbreak of violence and ensure that embassies would be fully protected. 
 
11. (SBU) Comment:  As the campaign enters its last days, the government appears to be getting nervous about how it is beingviewed internationally, how many people will vote and how many 
will vote for Sassou.  The movement of people away from their home areas can affect voter turnout-if they are not at home, people cannot be "encouraged" to vote on election day by local officials visiting their homes. 
EASTHAM