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DRC ELECTIONS:12 candidates slug it out to succeed Kabila
Voting is underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo as more than 46 million nationals have trooped out to elect a new president.
Reports say as many as 21 candidates are competing to succeed President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the central African country for 17 years.
After casting his vote in Bumbu municipality in the capital, Peter Ekoto, 47, told Al Jazeera that the voting procedure was straightforward.
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“It was an easy process. I thought it will be a complicated but it was not. It took me less than a minute. This election is the quickest and the most smooth I have seen,” Ekoto, a humanitarian worker, said as heavy rain poured down.
Voting commenced after opposition had accused authorities of trying to rig the vote in favour of Kabila’s preferred candidate.
The opposition also went ahead to claim that the government is plan to use electronic voting machines to rig the election for Kabila’s anointed candidate Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary.
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