By Spy Uganda Correspondent
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Constitutional Court has confirmed Felix Tshisekedi’s landslide re-election in December polls paving the way for him to serve another five years as president of the mineral-rich country.
The court on Tuesday rejected two legal challenges to the provisional results of last month’s contested 20 December presidential, legislative, regional and local elections.
Nine opposition candidates signed a declaration in late December rejecting what they termed a “sham” election and called for a re-run.
More than 40 million people out of the 100 million inhabitants of the vast country were registered to vote on December 20 for president, as well as for national and regional lawmakers and municipal councilors.
Voting was officially extended by a day to account for problems, and continued for days afterwards in remote areas, according to observers.
The final figures announced by the court on Tuesday differed only slightly from provisional results that election officials had already made public.
Following Tshisekedi is Moise Katumbi, a former governor of the central Katanga region with 18.08 percent.
Martin Fayulu — who says he was robbed of the last presidential election in 2018 — got 4.92 percent.
Former prime minister Adolphe Muzito got 1.13 percent and Denis Mukwege, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work with female victims of wartime sexual violence, got less than one percent.
