{"id":28344,"date":"2019-01-08T20:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28344"},"modified":"2019-01-08T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:23:30","slug":"major-irregularities-with-dr-congo-vote-count-poll-observers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28344","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Major&#8217; irregularities with DR Congo vote count: Poll observers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"91.9309934563\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">An observer mission to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/democratic-republic-congo.html\">Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s<\/a> presidential election said it had witnessed 52 &#8220;major&#8221; irregularities in the 101 vote-counting centres it observed, including people tampering with results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">There are 179 counting centres currently tallying the vote across Congo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The report released on Tuesday by Congo-based SYMOCEL said 16 percent of vote counting centres it had observed relied on tallies transmitted by voting machines instead of hand-counted tallies as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>It also said 92 percent of the vote-counting centres it had observed did not post vote tally sheets outside as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an opposition party said its leader was the &#8220;presumed winner&#8221; of the December 30 poll adding that Felix Tshisekedi has had contact with departing President Joseph Kabila &#8220;to prepare a peaceful and civilized transfer of power&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kabila adviser Kikaya Bin Karubi, however, on Tuesday denied any such contact.<\/p>\n<p>The statements by UDPS party secretary-general Jean-Marc Kabund appeared to go against electoral regulations that say only Congo&#8217;s electoral commission can announce election results.<\/p>\n<p>The UDPS also warned that the commission could be delaying the announcement of the December 30 election results in a bid to manipulate the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral commission on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/drc-election-result-delayed-votes-remain-uncounted-190107061754697.html\">delayed<\/a> it indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the ruling coalition rejected the accusation, asking &#8220;Why would we have to steal?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Zambian presidency said in a statement on Tuesday President Edgar Lungu is traveling to South Africa on Tuesday for an &#8220;urgent consultative meeting&#8221; with President Cyril Ramaphosa about DR Congo&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An observer mission to Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s presidential election said it had witnessed 52 &#8220;major&#8221; irregularities in the 101 vote-counting centres it observed, including people tampering with results. There are 179 counting centres currently tallying the vote across Congo. The report released on Tuesday by Congo-based SYMOCEL said 16 percent of vote counting centres&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28344","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\/28344","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=28344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}