Vital Kamerhe

A day later Felix Tshisekedi and Vital Kamerhe pulled out of the pact citing the furious reactions back home of the parties they lead – the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social  (UDPS) the largest opposition party which was founded in the early 1980s by Tshisekedi's father and the Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) another major political player (AC Vol 58 No 11 Kabila thriving on chaos)...

They opted for Martin Fayulu an articulate national parliamentarian who can mobilise the Kinshasa street but the next day Félix Tshisekedi son of the late and perennial opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi pulled out quickly followed by former information minister Vital Kamerhe...

The Rassemblement a large coalition dominated by the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) Congo's oldest opposition party and the G-7 alliance which supports the presidential aspirations of the exiled former Governor of Katanga Moïse Katumbi published a statement on 7 November identical to those issued by the Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) led by Vital Kamerhe and the Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) of Jean-Pierre Bemba...

DisappointmentThe formation of the new government has been dispiriting for Vital Kamerhe who finished third behind Kabila and Tshisekedi in the 2011 presidential election and his Union pour la nation congolaise...

A big loser is former Information Minister Vital Kamerhe Lwa Kanyiginyi Nkingi a heavyweight from South Kivu who pulled his Union pour la nation congolaise and other opposition allies into the talks but was eventually rewarded with nothing...

Badibanga's promotion came as a shock since Vital Kamerhe President of the Union pour la nation congolaise had led the opposition group in the negotiations which yielded the agreement with the regime and was assumed to be the frontrunner for the premiership...

For example Vital Kamerhe was a confidant of Kabila's who left the President's Parti du peuple pour la reconstruction et la démocratie and finished well behind both him and Tshisekedi in the 2011 presidential election...

La Dynamique is a separate coalition of opposition parties of which Vital Kamerhe's Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) are the biggest...

Katumbi has also been talking to Vital Kamerhe leader of the opposition Union pour la nation congolaise and another erstwhile ally of President Kabila...

'It was the same when UNC [Union pour la nation congolaise] leader Vital Kamerhe seemed to be offering Katumbi his endorsement...