{"id":26810,"date":"2018-12-24T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T23:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26810"},"modified":"2018-12-24T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T23:22:15","slug":"will-a-presidential-vote-in-drc-ever-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26810","title":{"rendered":"Will a presidential vote in DRC ever take place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"74.7967479675\">\n<p>There has not been a peaceful transition of power in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/democratic-republic-congo.html\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> in decades.<\/p>\n<p>But millions of Congolese had high hopes they would be able to choose a new president this week.<\/p>\n<p>However, the vote to replace President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/joseph-kabila.html\">Joseph Kabila<\/a>, who has been in power for 17 years, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/dr-congo-presidential-election-delayed-december-30-181220163234746.html\">delayed<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest setback in the electoral process since Kabila refused to leave office two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Will voters ever get to choose a new president in DRC?<\/p>\n<p>There are fears of violence if an\u00a0election does not take place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okito Tongomo &#8211; president of the Congolese Exile Government<\/p>\n<p>Alain Atundu &#8211; DRC&#8217;s ruling party spokesman<\/p>\n<p>Indigo Ellis &#8211; risk consultant at Verisk Maplecroft<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has not been a peaceful transition of power in Democratic Republic of Congo in decades. But millions of Congolese had high hopes they would be able to choose a new president this week. However, the vote to replace President\u00a0Joseph Kabila, who has been in power for 17 years, was delayed again. It is the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}