CANDIDATES FÉLIX TSHISEKEDI AND MOISE KATUMBI INVITED TO TEMPER THEIR RECIPROCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN SPEECHES
CANDIDATES FÉLIX TSHISEKEDI AND MOISE KATUMBI INVITED TO TEMPER THEIR RECIPROCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN SPEECHES. THE CASE RECOMMENDS THE TEAMS OF THE TWO LEADERS TO READJUST THEIR COMMUNICATION SO AS NOT TO CREATE A CLASH BETWEEN ACTIVISTS OF THE TWO GROUPS.
1. For a week in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there has been a recurrence of verbal attacks through incisive and destructive speeches between the candidates FÉLIX TSHISEKEDI and MOÏSE KATUMBI. Through their interviews, speeches and campaign meetings, the political and media outings of the two personalities are strongly marked by verbal attacks in place of the candidates' programs or results.
2. If Mr. TSHISEKEDI is mainly expected on his five-year report during this campaign period, Mr. KATUMBI should focus his tours on his government program.
3. CASE is particularly concerned by the continued deterioration of the political and social climate during this period of the electoral campaign for the general elections in the DRC. The two personalities particularly embody two large sociological blocs of the country, it is to be feared, if their speeches do not evolve positively, that the latter will incite their different supports to violence.
4. Given that the KATANGAIS-KASAIANS conflict has not yet definitively stabilized, CASE fears that any brutal message from the two Candidates will add fuel to the fire and cause unusual electoral tensions.
CASE condemns the go-to-war speeches of certain political leaders, inciting violence through social media as well as the attitude of certain leaders to prohibit candidates or citizens from campaign in their locality, under the pretext that it belongs to them.
CASE recommends that RTNC respect the law by granting all candidates the same broadcasting advantages. While the candidate FÉLIX TSHISEKEDI was entitled to a live broadcast of the launch ceremony of his campaign, it was deplored that the public channel did not do the same in favor of the candidates MOÏSE KATUMBI, MARTIN FAYULU, DELLY SESANGA and DENIS MUKWEGE.
Simaro Ngongo