Tshisekedi's Mental Health Called into Question after Incoherent Statements | |
Congo News Agency - November 8, 2011 | |
Government spokesman Lambert Mende called into question the mental health of veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi on Monday, a day after the main challenger to President Joseph Kabila in the November 28 presidential election made incoherent and incendiary statements during an interview. | |
PPRD Convention Chooses Kabila as Presidential Candidate | |
Le Potentiel | Radio Okapi - August 22, 2011 | |
The People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy nominated President Joseph Kabila as its candidate for the November presidential election on Sunday, the last day of its second convention – which was being held at Stade des Martyrs since Friday. | |
Parliament Approves Constitutional Amendments | |
Congo News Agency - January 16, 2011 | |
The amendments were approved during a joint session of the upper and the lower house of parliament. Out of 504 voters, 485 voted for the amendments, 8 voted against and 11 abstained. As had been the case when the amendments were considered in the National Assembly and the Senate, opposition MPs and Senators boycotted the vote. | |
China vows closer bonds with DR Congo | |
Xinhua - July 15, 2009 | |
China and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) agreed on Wednesday to strengthen bonds between parliaments and ruling parties. The agreement was reached in a meeting between China's top legislator Wu Bangguo and Evariste Boshab, speaker of the DR Congo's National Assembly and secretary general of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), the country's ruling party. | |
Evariste Boshab Elected National Assembly President | |
Congo News Agency - April 18, 2009 | |
There were no surprises at the Palais du Peuple on Saturday morning as elections results revealed that Evariste Boshab, from President Joseph Kabila's People's Party for Reconstruction and Development (PPRD), had come ahead as the new speaker of the lower house of Parliament in polls held on Friday to replace its former officers. |
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