Les jeux sont faits

With just over a month to go until elections, unexpected alliances have emerged. President Joseph Kabila, the Commission Electorale Indépendante headed by Apollinaire Malu Malu and the United Nations Security Council want the vote to proceed as scheduled. Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) and the Catholic Church don't.

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Joseph Kabila, Apollinaire Malu Malu, Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba, United States, France, Jean-Marc de la Sablière, William Swing, Germany, Karlheinz Viereck, Pakistani, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Ugandan, Yoweri Museveni, Rwandan, Paul Kagame, Commission Electorale Indépendante, Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social, Mission des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo, Mouvement pour la Libération Congolaise, Regroupement des Nationalistes Congolais, Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie, Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie

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