DRC deems candidacy of former warlord Bemba 'inadmissible'...

DRC deems candidacy of former warlord Bemba 'inadmissible'

https://www.france24.com/en/2018082...ency-former-warlord-bemba-inadmissible-kabila

Bemba said on Saturday that he would appeal the commission's decision.
"The electoral commission is under full control of the regime," he told FRANCE 24. "That is why we came to this situation."

Overall, the election commission has excluded six out of the 25 candidates who had registered to run in the presidential elections, set for December 23.

In addition to Bemba, the commission has barred three of Kabila's former prime ministers -- Samy Badibanga, Adolphe Muzito, and Antoine Gizenga.
"These exclusions are unacceptable and show once again that the electoral commission is totally dominated by Kabila," Moise Katumbi wrote on Twitter.

A former governor of Katanga who joined the opposition in 2015, Katumbi said that he had been blocked from returning to the DRC to register his candidacy.
He has been living in Belgium since 2016 and has been sentenced absentia to three years in prison. Considered a fugitive by the Ministry of Justice, he is the subject of an international arrest warrant.