Officials in Democratic Republic of the Congo says Felix Tshisekedi has been re-elected with 73% of the vote
The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, has won a second term in office with a landslide victory, according to provisional results, in a vote opposition leaders have dismissed as a “sham”.
Provisional results from the single-round presidential ballot, declared on Sunday by the country’s electoral commission, Ceni, showed Tshisekedi had won 73% of the vote.
Moise Katumbi – a wealthy businessman, football club owner and former provincial governor – was the runner-up with about 18%.
The DRC’s constitutional court is expected to confirm the provisional results on 10 January.
Tshisekedi, 60, first came to power in January 2019 after a disputed election that many observers said he had in fact lost.
Martin Fayulu – who claims he was robbed of the last presidential election in 2018 – also contested this year’s poll but in the end won about 5% of the votes.
The 20 remaining candidates, including Denis Mukwege, who won a Nobel peace prize for his work with female victims of wartime sexual violence, were either under, or hovering around, 1%.
