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Together For The Republic
Together for the Republic (; abbreviated EPR) is a political party of the Democratic Republic of Congo created on 18 December 2019 by businessman Moïse Katumbi. Until his death in 2020, Pierre Lumbi was the secretary general of the party. replaced in April 2021 by Dieudonné Bolengetenge Balea. Together for the Republic joined the Sacred Union, a parliamentary coalition that supports President Félix Tshisekedi, in December 2020. The party therefore supports the Lukonde cabinet which was formed in April 2021 and several of its members ( Christophe Lutundula, deputy prime minister, Muhindo Nzangi, Modeste Mutinga, Chérubin Okende Senga Chérubin Okende Senga (5 October 1961 – 13 July 2023) was a Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congolese politician of . He served as Minister of Transport and Communication from 2021 to 2022. He also served as technical administrator of Ligne ..., and ). In December 2022, Moïse Katumbi announced his candidacy for the 2023 Democrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together (coalition)
Ensemble (, stylised in all caps), known in full as Ensemble pour la République (''Together for the Republic''), is a liberal political coalition in France created by Emmanuel Macron. Formed in November 2021 as Ensemble Citoyens, it makes up the presidential majority and includes Renaissance (RE, formerly known as En Marche and La République En Marche!), Democratic Movement (MoDem), Horizons, En commun, and the Progressive Federation. The coalition included the parties Agir and Territories of Progress (TDP) until they were merged into the rebranded Renaissance. Ensemble has mainly been described as being centrist and sometimes as centre-right on the political spectrum. After the 2022 French legislative election, the coalition won a plurality of seats but lost its majority in the National Assembly. In 2024, they were reduced further into third place in terms of votes but second in seats. History On 17 December 2017, at the congress of the Democratic Movement (Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukonde Cabinet
The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sama Lukonde was appointed on 15 February 2021. He announced his first cabinet on 12 April 2021. On 24 March 2023, a second cabinet was announced. First cabinet The members of the first cabinet were: * Prime Minister: Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge Deputy Prime Ministers: * Minister of the Interior, Security, Decentralization and Traditional Affairs: Daniel Aselo Okito. * Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development: Ève Bazaiba Masudi * Minister of Foreign Affairs: Christophe Lutundula Apala * Minister of the Civil Service, Administrative Modernization and Innovation in Public Services: Jean-Pierre Lihau Ministers of State: * Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals: Rose Mutombo Kiese. * Minister of Infrastructure and Public Works: Alexis Gizaro Muvuni * Minister of Portfolio: Adèle Kahinda Mayina * Minister of Planning: * Minister of the Budget: Aimé Boji Sangara Bamanyirue * Minister of Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Establishments In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
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Political Parties In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Democratic Republic Of The Congo General Election
General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 20 December 2023. Combined elections were held for the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President, 484 of the 500 members of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, National Assembly, 700 of the 716 elected members of the 26 provincial assemblies, and for the first time under the new constitution, 951 members of a scaled down number of Communes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, commune (municipal) councils. On election day, the Independent National Electoral Commission (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), in violation of electoral law, extended voting to 21 December for polling stations that had not opened on 20 December. Some polling stations stayed open on their own accord for up to six extra days. The election saw President Félix Tshisekedi win in a landslide victory with 73% of the vote, far ahead of his close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chérubin Okende Senga
Chérubin Okende Senga (5 October 1961 – 13 July 2023) was a Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congolese politician of . He served as Minister of Transport and Communication from 2021 to 2022. He also served as technical administrator of Lignes Aériennes Congolaises (2005–2013), Lignes Aériennes Congolaises. Biography Born on 5 October 1961, Okende grew up in the Sankuru province and was a polyglot, speaking fluent Swahili, Lingala, Kikongo, French, and English. He graduated from the Institut supérieur de statistique in 1989. He also earned a master's degree from the University of Kinshasa in 2013, and subsequently a doctorate in public law from the same university in 2016. From 1989 to 1999, Okende was head of service at the local production department of the Office congolais de contrôle (OCC). From 1992 to 2005, he was secretary-general of the Syndicat autonome des travailleurs of the OCC. He served as national president of the Confédération générale de syndicat au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modeste Mutinga
Modeste Mutinga Mutuishayi, commonly known as Modeste Mutinga, is a journalist and senator of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Biography Mutinga is the publisher of '' Le Potentiel'', which The Committee to Protect Journalists described as "the only independent daily newspaper in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo". According to Mutinga, the paper has "an agenda" of promoting economic development and democracy. Mutinga has been threatened, arrested, and jailed multiple times on charges related to his reporting. In 1992, during the Mobutu Sese Seko era, the ''Le Potentiel'' offices were bombed. In 1998, he was arrested by authorities following an article covering the house arrest of opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi. In January 2000, he was assaulted in New York City by the advisors of DRC President Laurent-Désiré Kabila while covering a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. In 2000, he was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhindo Nzangi
Muhingo Nzangi Butondo is a Congolese politician who is currently serving as the Congolese Minister of Rural Development since May 2024 and as a member of the National Assembly for Goma since 2024. He had previously served as the Minister of Higher Education from 2021 to 2024, and as deputy for Butembo from 2012 to 2024. Biography Nzangi was born in Kyavinyonge, on the shore of Lake Edward in Beni Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo on November 11, 1980. Nzangi was elected as a provincial deputy for Lubero Territory in North Kivu in 2006. In August 2013, he was arrested by the ANR and convicted by the Supreme Court on the charges of "undermining state security" and "insulting the head of state." Nzangi was elected to the National Assembly in 2011 for the constituency of Butembo during the 2011 legislative elections. He was re-elected in 2018 under the Together for the Republic party. Nzangi was part of TFR until July 2022 when he created his own party Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Lutundula
Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen'apala is a member of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Deputy President of the Assembly. Career On March 25, 2009, he became President ad interim of the Assembly following the resignation of Vital Kamerhe. He was succeeded by Évariste Boshab on April 18, 2009. He was appointed Vice-Premier minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 12, 2021 in the new government of Sama Lukonde. Lutundula Commission Lutundula helped create the Lutundula Commission, an important investigation by the post-war transition government into mining contracts signed by both rebels and government employees with mining companies during both the First and Second Congo Wars. The commission recommended suspending new contracting during the transition, but this suggestion was ignored. The government signed several new contracts with multinationals, mostly forming joint ventures with one of the government enterprises in the sector such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Tshisekedi
Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo (; born 13 June 1963) is a Congolese politician who has served as the fifth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since 2019. He was the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), the DRC's oldest and largest party, succeeding his late father Étienne Tshisekedi in that role, a three-time Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Prime Minister of Zaire and opposition leader during the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. Tshisekedi was the UDPS party's candidate for president in the 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, December 2018 general election, which he was awarded, despite accusations of irregularities from several election monitoring organisations and other opposition parties. The Constitutional Court of the DRC upheld his victory after another opposition politician, Martin Fayulu, challenged the result, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moïse Katumbi
Moïse Katumbi Chapwe (; born 28 December 1964) is a Congolese businessman and politician. He leads the Together for the Republic party. He was Governor of Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2007 to September 2015. He was a member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) until September 2015. He has been described by ''The Economist'' as "probably the second most powerful man in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the president, Joseph Kabila". ''Jeune Afrique'' named him "African of the Year" in 2015. In 2016, he was sentenced in Trial in absentia, absentia to three years in prison for real estate fraud. Background and personal life Moïse Katumbi was born on 28 December 1964 to a Zambian mother and a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jewish father from Greece, Nissim Soriano. Katumbi's father, a Greek Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jew, fled Rhodes in 1938 with his two sisters after the introduction by the Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Lumbi
Pierre Lumbi Okongo Born in Costermansville, Belgian Congo (now Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo)(11 March 195014 June 2020) was a Congolese activist, politician, and opposition leader. He was a prominent figure in the political landscape of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), known for his involvement in opposition movements and his role in advocating for political change. Early life and education Pierre Lumbi Okongo, a native of Maniema, was born in 1950 in Bukavu to a modest family. Around 1954, his family was expelled to Burundi due to his father's involvement in the Mouvement national congolais-Lumumba and the Kitawala politico-religious movement, which opposed the Belgian colonial regime. He completed his primary education at the École Primaire des Frères de la Charité Buyenzi in Burundi (1956–1963) and his secondary education at the Collège Saint Paul in Bukavu (DR Congo), where he earned his state diploma in biochemistry (1963–1971). He then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
