By Chris Muhizi for MCN.
Felix Tshisekedi was proposed as the Union for the Congolese Nation’s (UNC) candidate for president in December 2023 during a congress that was held on Saturday, August 19 in Kinshasa.
The UNC members argue that Felix Tshisekedi’s renewal is justified by their desire to finish the joint program they created with their partner UDPS in the wake of the introduction of the CACH platform (Cap for Change). It is also a matter of continuing “the pooling of efforts for the emergence of the DRC” within the framework of the Sacred Union for the country, in their opinion.
“Felix Antoine Tshisekedi showed that he was a responsible leader who cared about his people’s problems. How can we not be happy at the union’s founding, which served as the cornerstone for the creation of the USN (Sacred Union of the Nation)? Since our great capacity for change depends on our confidence in the future, our decision today must be informed by both reason and heart.
“We want Felix Antoine Tshisekedi to represent our party’s goals for the 2023 presidential election as stated in the resolution that our party’s congress just passed. We are aware of the significant task the President of the Republic faces.”
Thus, this decision contradicts the clause of the Nairobi Convention of 2018 between the UNC and the UDPS, which called for an alternating of single candidacies for the Presidency of the Republic and, in the event of success, for the Primature after five years.