Modeste Bahati Lukwebo is an economist, businessperson and politician in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

. He is president of the (AFDC). He was President of the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

from March 2021 to February 2024.

Biography

Bahati Lukwebo was born in 1956 in South Kivu. Modeste Bahati Lukwebo established the ADFC in 2010. He was Minister of Employment, Labor and Social Welfare under president Joseph Kabila, with the AFDC forming a second plank of Kabila's Common Front for Congo. However, in 2019 Bahati Lukwebo left Kabila's camp and moved closer to Félix Tshisekedi's Union for Democracy and Social Progress. After participating in the breakup between Kabila and Tshisekedi, he was one of the architects of the ' Sacred Union of the Nation'. On 31 December 2020 President Tshisekedi chose him to help form a new parliamentary majority. As negotiations proceeded for a 'Sacred Union' government, Bahati Lukwebo was on Tshisekedi's shortlist for the position of prime minister, though this went to Sama Lukonde Kyenge in February. On 2 March 2021 Bahati Lukwebo was elected

president of the Senate President of the Senate is a title often given to the presiding officer of a senate. It corresponds to the Speaker (politics), speaker in some other assemblies. The senate president often ranks high in a jurisdiction's Order of succession, succes ...

, replacing Kabila's supporter Alexis Thambwe Mwamba.

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