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UNCLAS KINSHAA 001386 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
SUBJECT: DRC ELECTIONS PPRD, INDEPENDENTS STILL LEADING IN 
LEGISLATIVEBALLOTING 
 
REF: KINSHASA 1370 
 
¶1. (U) Summary.The latest legislative election results 
releasedby the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) show 
the People's Party for Recostruction and Development (PPRD) 
leading all other parties with 26 percent of the 250 seats 
awarded to date. A total of 39 independent candidates have 
won seats in the future National Assembly, representing 16 
percent of the legislature's composition thus far. No party 
or coalition has captured a majority of the seats required to 
control the Assembly. End summary. 
 
¶2. (U) According to initial figures announced August 30 by 
the CEI, 104 of 169 electoral districts have reported their 
results from the July 30 National Assembly elections. This 
total represents 250 of the 500 seats for the Assembly. Based 
on the preliminary results, the PPRD, which is affiliated 
with President Kabila, leads all other parties with 65 seats 
(26 percent) thus far. Independent candidates as a group 
(although not to be considered one voting bloc) have won 39 
seats (16 percent), while Vice President Bemba's Movement for 
the Liberation of Congo (MLC) party has captured 31 seats (12 
percent) thus far. A total of 41 parties to date have won 
seats in the National Assembly, with 8,882,802 valid ballots 
having been counted. No results have yet been released from 
Kinshasa, which will favor parties other than the PPRD. 
 
¶2. (U) Parties included in the Alliance for the Presidential 
Majority (AMP), an umbrella organization of political groups 
that supported Kabila's presidential campaign and includes 
the PPRD, has won an additional 16 seats, bringing the AMP's 
overall total to 81 seats (32 percent). The Rally of 
Congolese Nationalists (RENACO), a platform of political 
parties which includes Bemba's MLC, has a total of 35 seats 
(14 percent) thus far. No party or coalition yet controls a 
majority of seats for the National Assembly. 
 
¶3. (U) Two smaller political parties have gained seats and 
now represent small yet significant percentages of the 
Assembly's composition. Forces for Renewal, led by Minister 
of Regional Cooperation Mbusa Nyamwisi, has won 13 seats 
(five percent) to date. The Movement for Social Renewal (MSR) 
has captured 16 seats, representing six percent of the total 
awarded thus far. Both parties may ally with Kabila and the 
PPRD-AMP coalition, but neither are officially members of the 
alliance. Nyamwisi, who ran for president, called on his 
supporters before the July 30 vote to cast their ballots for 
Kabila. He did not exhort his supporters, though, to vote for 
PPRD or AMP-allied candidates in the legislative elections. 
Similarly, the MSR is led by politicians close to Kabila and 
his advisers, but has not publicly declared an alliance with 
the AMP or Kabila. In any event, predictions of potential 
alliances are speculative until full National Assembly 
results are known. 
 
¶4. (U) North Kivu province is the first to report all of its 
electoral districts. Of the 48 seats assigned to the 
province, the PPRD won 15 (with AMP-affiliated parties adding 
another four seats). Forces of Renewal and the Federalist 
Christian Democracy party (which includes presidential 
candidate Pierre Pay Pay) each won six seats in the province, 
while Vice President Azarias Ruberwa's Rally for Congolese 
Democracy (RCD) won five and the MSR party won four. 
 
¶5. (U) Nearly two-thirds of the seats awarded to date are 
from eastern provinces in the DRC. Of the 161 seats announced 
in North and South Kivu, Maniema, Katanga and Orientale 
provinces, the PPRD has won 53. A total of 61 seats has been 
awarded in the western provinces of Bas-Congo, Equateur and 
Bandundu, of which the MLC has won 17. Independent candidates 
are doing comparatively well in the central Kasai provinces, 
winning 8 of the 28 seats awarded there thus far. 
 
¶6. (U) Among the well-known political personalities who have 
won their respective legislative races are Giala Mobutu, one 
of the former dictator's sons, who was awarded a seat in 
Equateur province with the UDEMO party (headed by his brother 
and presidential candidate Nzanga Mobutu), and Minister of 
Portfolio Celestin Vunabandi (an ethnic Hutu), who won his 
seat in North Kivu. Samba Kaputo, President Kabila's security 
adviser, won a seat in Katanga province. 
MEECE