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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2022  
         
  Article:   POLITICAL OPPOSITION AND THE FIGHT FOR POWER IN THE REPUBLIC STATE DEMOCRATIC CONGO. DIAGNOSIS OF A CONGOLESE DEMOCRACY''S PAPER TIGER / OPPOSITION POLITIQUE ET LUTTE POUR LA CONQUÊTE DU POUVOIR D’ÉTAT EN RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO. DIAGNOSTIC D’UN TIGRE EN PAPIER DE LA DÉMOCRATIE CONGOLAISE.

Authors:  VALÉRY IRAGI NTWALI.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbeuropaea.2022.1.03

Published Online: 2022-06-30
Published Print: 2022-06-30
pp. 41-88

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The political opposition in Democratic Republic of Congo reamins less studied in studies on the dynamics of democratic transition in this country for two reasons. It is about the omission of this component in the constitutionalist process after independance and the long duration of military government come to power by coup or armed insurrection. Consequently, this article proposes to operate three variables to study congolese political opposition. Institutional determinants (related to the party system, methods of voting systems), the legal expression of the opposition and finaly, the nature and charisma of congolese opposition leaders. Anyway, the congolese political opposition has its origins in an intra-party struggle to evolve into an inter-party oppositon in its fight for the conquest of state power. It remains true that on the three democratic experiences relating to the presidential elections, the congolese political, by forming electoral coalitions, managed to beat the ruling party once in the presidential elections. Nevertheless, the strategies of this opposition remain limited in terms of effectiveness because of the nature of the parties that compose it, political transhumance, the ego between its leaders in a political system combining victory in the presidential and legislative elections to govern without alchemy of cohabition.

Keywords: opposition, struggle, conquest, power, DR Congo
 
         
     
         
         
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