News | Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS)
| Tshisekedi Draws Huge Crowds in Kinshasa | |
Le Potentiel - August 10, 2011 | |
 | The president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress staged an impressive show of force in the capital certain to bolster his claim that he is the best candidate from the opposition to challenge President Joseph Kabila in the one-round presidential election scheduled for November 28. |
| Etienne Tshisekedi Rallies Supporters in Kinshasa | |
Congo News Agency - April 24, 2011 | |
 | At least 50,000 people attended veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi first big rally in Kinshasa on Sunday, ahead of the presidential election due later this year. Many more supporters were refused entry to the packed Stade Tata Raphael. |
| Etienne Tshisekedi to Run for President in 2011 | |
ACP - August 19, 2010 | |
 | Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, national president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, announced on Wednesday his candidacy for president in next year’s elections. "Now that I am healthy again, I want to reorganize my party and put it into battle mode. So that, tomorrow, it may be able to run the country,” he said during a press conference in Brussels, Belgium. |
| Opposition, Civil Society Reject Elections Timetable | |
Le Potentiel - August 11, 2010 | |
 | Reactions are beginning to pour in after the Independent Electoral Commission released on Monday a timetable for all upcoming elections in the DRC until 2013. The IEC released its schedule even though President Joseph Kabila signed a law last month creating a new body to oversee the electoral process in the DRC, the Independent National Electoral Commission, which will replace the IEC once its members are elected. |
| William Swing leaves Congo with a note of hope | |
MONUC - January 11, 2008 | |
 | Mr. William Lacy Swing, former Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in the DRC, left the country this week after five years as MONUC head between July 2003 and January 2008. In a Radio Okapi interview on 8 January 2008, Mr. Swing gave an assessment of his five years at MONUC, and the challenges he faced. |
| Rival Congolese Camps Build Alliances | |
VOA News - October 2, 2006 | |
 | Rival camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo's post-war election process are busy building alliances, but fears of more unrest remain. A second round presidential runoff will take place October 29, along with an election for provincial posts. |
| Two elections held, four more to go | |
IRIN - August 1, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo's first democratic elections since 1960 were held on Sunday for the presidency and parliament but the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) must now prepare for four more elections between October and January 2007. |
| Vote starts with good turnout | |
IRIN - July 30, 2006 | |
 | In the first democratic elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in more than 40 years, people started lining up early in the morning in many voting stations in Kinshasa and the east. |
| Interview with Apollinaire Malumalu, president of Independent Electoral Commission | |
IRIN - June 14, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is set to hold its first series of elections in 45 years on 30 July. There have been many obstacles and delays: The country is huge, with few roads, and is in the process of emerging from a decade of civil conflict |
| Interview with Valentin Mubake, representative of the opposition UDPS | |
IRIN - June 14, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is preparing to hold its first democratic elections in 45 years on 30 July, but the main political opposition party is not participating. |
