B. Second Round
The second election is normally organized, according article
71 of the new Congolese's constitution which saying: `the president of the
Republic is elected by an absolute majority of votes. If a leader is not chosen
after the first round of elections, there must be a waiting period of 15 days
until a second election can take place. Only the two candidates who received
the most votes in the first election can proceed to the second round. In case
of death or withdrawal of either candidate, they will be presented in the order
of their standing based on the results of the first election. Whoever is
declared as winner of the first presidential elections will receive the
majority of votes'.
In practice, the Independent Electoral Commission is the first
by violating the constitution because the second round didn't take place
fifteen days after the results for first round has been proclaimed by the High
Court. How we can build a democratic state by starting violating the
constitution?
This second round of presidential election to end fragile
political transition period took place on 29 October 2006, opposing Jean-Pierre
Bemba and Kabila, which is considered as a Community International candidate,
still characterized by many irregularities, according to Eve Bazaiba, a
spokesperson for the main political coalition supporting Bemba. She said the
votes for candidate were systematically decreased, while those of his opponent
were increased, she denouncing what she called `cheating' by the electoral
commission which never been independent.
Bazaiba also said partial results published currently by the
commission so far included more results from the east, where Kabila has
political support, and less from the west where Bemba is more popular, giving
the impression that Bemba is far behind. This creates an imbalance and creates
tensions within the population. Results released Monday from the October 29
showed Kabila well ahead with more than 60 percent of the vote. The results
were based on a tally of 1, 8 million ballots out of 25 million registered
voters in many provinces across the country. But for my own opinion, I sharing
the political view from UDPS which has already believe that this electoral
process is just a `masquerade' when other knows before the winner.
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