DR Congo says that the internal note of the presidential … Ceni – Jeune Afrique

 The “slip” of the electoral calendar is it now inevitable in the DRC? A technical note of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), which leaked on social networks, does not rule out the hypothesis.

In the cabinet Nangaa Cornelius, President of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of the DRC, we swear not be the cause of the leak. Since January 26, the extract of a “technical note on the updating of the electoral roll and the distribution of seats” indeed circulated on social networks, creating a great controversy.

“It this is only an internal discussion paper “, says another source within the CENI, which stresses the need for his organization to take into account all possible assumptions, the overall timetable for elections, released in mid -February 2015, being greatly exceeded

Object of the leak. the electoral file

The part of the “technical note” of the CENI has leaked one of the issues concerned main electoral process in the DRC. the revision of the electoral register

The whole political class is unanimous: the current electoral file is corrupted and needs to be cleaned. But he will have a partial or total revision? “It is to decide policy” blows our source within the Ceni.

Meanwhile, the Ceni takes into account two assumptions in its “internal document”. According to his “statistical estimates” if policies adopt the option of a partial revision, 17,266,631 new voters may arise enlisting while nearly 41 million are expected in case of a total revision.

Will it towards the “slippage” of the electoral calendar?

According to the “technical note from the Ceni” if it is partial, the revision of the electoral register would extend over at least 13 months and 10 days. But in case of a total revision, the operation would last at least 16 months and one day.

In both developments, the assumptions electoral register would not be ready before November 27, 2016, due date the holding of presidential elections within the constitutional deadlines.

“But it will also depend on the number of kits that will be available to make this revision or partial, of the electoral roll,” tries to nuance our source within the Ceni. “The more kits and registration centers plus enrollment could go faster and take less time,” she says. This grade does will be enough to calm people down? Not sure

. Treasury Kibangula