"Restructuring the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI)”, this is one of the main recommendations of the participants in the forum on electoral corruption, organized on Tuesday, April 22 in Kinshasa, organized on Tuesday, April 22 in Kinshasa by the Congolese Institute for Research on Politics, Governance and Violence, “Ebuteli”, a member of the Congo is not for sale (CNPAV) consortium. This flagship recommendation was supported by honorary deputy Juvenal Munobo,

“The recommendations can be summed up in terms of structural reforms, which must be carried out to ensure that in 2028, citizens will elect their leaders with confidence in order to fight corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo”, said Professor Pascal Isumbisho Mwapu, one of the speakers.

“(...) for me, elections are about choosing the best among us. But when corruption is described as it is done in our country, it does not allow us to choose the best one,” he said, before stressing that “regarding reform, CENI is at the center of any reform activity that must be done.”

According to Pascal Isumbisho Mwapu, “The CENI must be truly independent. Why? Because we have to think of a structure that organizes the elections so that in the end we say to ourselves, in any case, even if there may have been some slip-ups, at least we find ourselves in the personalities who were

This professor at ISP Gombe invited the Congolese population to rely on values.

“That's why at some point I was thinking, maybe you have to put everything back together to start all over again. Because, we have lost values, while no country in the world has developed without relying on values,” he said.

And to add: “if we continue to operate as we do, the DRC will never stand up.”

Among the key recommendations of this forum, on the theme:” Publication of a note on electoral corruption in the DRC”, includes, among other things, the restructuring of the CENI to remove it from political interference by recruiting members of the bureau on the basis of integrity and technical skills validated at the end of an organized competition. by an independent firm, selected by a joint and joint commission (majority - Opposition)

Another recommendation focused on strengthening the autonomy of the plenary by removing officers from its membership. This plenary will bring together delegates from civil society, the majority and the opposition, selected by competition by the same independent cabinet, from the list of five candidates proposed by each of the three components