The bishops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among several major observers casting doubt on the results of the nation’s December 30 presidential elections.
“he results of the presidential election as published by the CENI do not correspond to the data collected by our observation mission from the polling and counting stations,” said the standing committee of the DRC bishops’ conference in a Jan. 10 statement.
Overnight, the National Election Commission announced that opposition party leader Felix Tshisekedi had won the presidential election with 38.57 percent of the vote, just surpassing former oil executive Martin Fayulu, who had 34.8 percent.
