Félix Tshisekedi was declared the winner of the elections on New Year's Eve. Your opponents are contesting the election.
The official announcement of the election results in the capital Kinshasa took place precisely on New Year's Eve, just hours before the turn of the year – with the expectation that no one would want to speak out. Hours earlier, the opposition unanimously questioned the legitimacy of President Félix Tshisekedi's electoral victory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, raised the prospect of a challenge to the electoral commission and called for new elections. She held a rally just after Christmas, which police quickly broke up.
According to official data, 73 percent voted for the re-election of the 60-year-old man, son of the charismatic former prime minister and opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi. 18 percent went to Moise Katumbi, the extremely wealthy former governor of the resource-rich Katanga province in the south of the giant country in the heart of Africa, and five percent to former oil manager Martin Fayulu.