KINSHASA,
Supporters of President Joseph Kabila on Thursday denounced alleged cheating in an opinion poll that placed two opposition leaders well ahead before a presidential election due on December 23.
Results of the national poll released on Tuesday tipped Felix Tshisekedi, president of the main historic opposition party, and former national assembly speaker Vital Kamerhe to win.
THIRD PLACE
The poll, jointly conducted by BERCI consulting, a Congolese organisation, and the Congo Research Group at New York University, put Kabila’s favourite Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary in third place.
“We’re denouncing bumbling manipulation,” government minister Felix Kabange, the spokesman for the Common Front for the Congo (FCC) and the pro-Kabila coalition, told AFP