excluded acting Speaker Timothée Kombo Nkisi from the party.
The consitutional problem, for the UDPS, happens to be the
following... If an MP resigns from her or his party, she's
automatically kicked out of Parliament. If however an MP is kicked out
of her party (without her consent), she keeps her seat!
A stupid move by the UDPS, if you'd ask me... Number One: It ensues
from the above that Nkisi is keeping his seat and, hence, the interim
Speakership... Number Two: In the DRC, people vote by their guts
(literally!): by person (the candidate), by clan, by tribe, by ethnic
group, by city, by province. Not on the basis of some loony concept
such as one called "political party."
It therefore ensues that by firing from the party Nkisi, a member of
the Bakongo ethnic group, UDPS, an ethnic Baluba party, has achieved
antagonizing the entire Bas-Congo Provinve and its Bakongo tribe.
Recently this kind of mishap happened to UDPS. It was when Bandundu
voted massively for Kabila last November: MP Roger Lumbala, a Luba
ally of Tshisekedi, had, in a TV appearance, belittled the Bayaka,
the Bandundu Province tribe of the political party called PALU!
3 comments:
We are now witnessing the End of the UDPS,i knew that after this elections the newly elected UDPS deputies are no longer going to put up with CHISEKEDI's madness.
To Congoman and Alex,
The main problem is that you cannot be an husband and a wife to yourself at the same time. That's what you are tying to do in order to make your blog more interesting. Try to be more creative
You said that UDPS is an ethnic baluba party but yet the speaker of parliament who was elected under the banner of UDPS is from Bas-Congo. How could that happen? As said in the other blog, you cannot be a husband and wife at the same time. I would say, you cannot want one thing and its opposite at the same time. That is the tragedy of Congolese.
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