The current does not pass any more between certain deputies and the first person in charge of the lower house of the Congolese Parliament. For the past few days, Christophe Mboso has been threatened by a motion of no confidence carried by some deputies initiating a petition aimed at his forfeiture. Within days, the petition collected 136 signatures.
What exactly are the petitioners accusing the President of the National Assembly?
Papy Niango one of the petitioners, contact through your media Kivuavenir.com replies: “ poor conduct of debates and disorder in the functioning of parliamentary committees and groups ”. The deputy also notes a dysfunction of the conference of presidents and parliamentary groups. For Papy Niango and his colleagues, there is a need to “put the National Assembly institution back into an orbit that reassures its better future and its prestige”.
The objective of the petitioners is to succeed in exceeding 250 signatures, or more than half of the 500 deputies in the National Assembly, in the hope of dismissing the president of the institution.
But, it will undoubtedly be a difficult bet since the majority is always on the side of the Sacred Union of the Nation to which Christophe Mboso belongs. This is not the first time that Jeanine Mabunda’s replacement has been threatened by a petition.
At the end of February, Gratien Iracan, an elected representative of the party Together for the Republic of Moïse Katumbi, had taken a similar initiative still based on reproaches of incompetence to the president of the National Assembly.
But subsequently, the elected representative of Bunia, whose petition had already collected 129 signatures, decided to suspend the procedure initiated against Christophe Mboso. Gratien Iracan had justified this renunciation by the goodwill displayed by the President of the National Assembly to improve his management after the issuance of the petition.
What about the current petition? What are its chances of succeeding? Will the petitioners be able to bring their initiative to fruition? What strengths can they count on? Case to follow.
Julardin Nkinzo
