Kinshasa, DRC – The presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) scheduled on Sunday has been cancelled and will now be held a week later on December 30.
The country’s election commission on Thursday said it was not prepared to hold the elections following a fire that destroyed voting machines as well as the Ebola outbreak in the east.
Last week, a fire in an election commission warehouse destroyed nearly 80 percent of the voting machines in capital, Kinshasa.
Corneille Nangaa, head of the electoral commission, said officials have found enough voting machines for Kinshasa but had to get five million new ballots printed. He called on the country of some 40 million voters for calm.
The cancellation of Sunday’s vote is likely to provoke protests by the opposition leaders and students across the DRC.
The election, already postponed repeatedly since 2016, is meant to choose a successor to President Joseph Kabila, who is due to step down after 18 years in power.
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