According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), which began publishing the country's partial results the day before, the president was in the lead with 850,648 votes, 82.60 percent of the votes counted.
Moïse Katumbi continued the list with 147,053 votes (14.30 percent), while Radjabo Tebabho Sorobabho came third with 9,263 (0.90 percent) and Martin Fayulu came fourth with 7,965 (0.80 percent).
The results are based on the study of 22 of the country's 169 constituencies where one million 29,616 people exercised their right to vote.
What was surprising about these results was the number of votes cast by Radjabo Tebabho, who did not run for elections and was therefore not among the favorites.
Tshisekedi also led the Congolese diaspora vote, in which the re-election candidate received 4,294 votes, or 80.99 percent, from the 5,302 voters in France, Belgium, the United States, South Africa and Canada.
However, tensions are rising as the publication of the results of the December 20th and 21st meetings in the Democratic Republic of Congo progresses, during which there were acts of violence, vandalism and sabotage against CENI personnel, material and electoral assets.
In addition, a group of presidential candidates called for the “immediate cancellation” of the elections, seeing them as “chaotic” and “marred by massive electoral fraud.”
Franck Diongo, Seth Kikuni, Matata Ponyo, Delly Sesanga and Moise Katumbi also referred in their statement to the irregularities found in various voting centers across the country and reiterated that they would not accept the results of the process and the institutions that emerged from it.
They called for the resignation of the CENI president and his associates, whom they accused of plotting electoral fraud and depriving millions of Congolese of their right to vote, and called on the population to mobilize en masse throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Around 44 million voters out of a total of around 100 million Congolese were expected to take part in the elections on Wednesday, December 20th. The election was fraught with various logistical difficulties, which led to an expansion of voting in some polling stations.
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