Félix Antoine Tshisekedi

CENI had previously responded to a series of technical questions submitted by the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social led by Félix Tshisekedi son of the long-time oppositionist Étienne...

Kasaï Central has historically been a stronghold of the opposition Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) but its leader Felix Tshisekedi has not impressed locally having yet to set foot in the province after inheriting the mantle from his late father Etienne (AC Vol 59 No 16 Kabila names his dauphin)...

The other two main possible candidates Felix Tshisekedi son of the legendary Etienne and Moïse Katumbi were each on 19%...

The MLC had initially resisted endorsing the idea of a transition sans Kabila ('transition without Kabila') but changed its tune on the same day Félix Tshisekedi the Rassemblement's President met Bemba in The Hague where Bemba is serving an International Criminal Court sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity...

'Joseph Kabila and his servant Corneille Nangaa have declared war on the Congolese people ' said Felix Tshisekedi the leader of the Rassemblement de l'opposition congolaise...

Most of the coalition has lined up behind Etienne Tshisekedi's son Félix Tshisekedi and Pierre Lumbi Okongo President of the G-7 a group of seven political parties which left the MP in September 2015 and backs Moïse Katumbi Chapwe a one-time Kabila ally and former Governor of Katanga to become the next president...

It is unclear what overall impact these machinations will have on the UDPS leadership succession but speculation is rife that Félix Tshisekedi the presumed political heir to his father's network is quickly losing support from hardliners who think he was too soft on the negotiations that culminated on 31 December...

Félix Antoine Tshisekedi son of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the octogenarian leader of the opposition Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) appears to have got the better of President Joseph Kabila just as his father did in 1991 to the late President Mobutu Sese Seko...

Félix Tshisekedi announced that he was instead returning to Belgium for Christmas and would be back 'some time in the New Year'...

The dialogue was initiated with Félix Tshisekedi the son of the President's long-time rival Étienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba whose Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) claimed victory at the 2011 presidential election which was marred by fraud and won by Kabila (AC Vol 55 No 13 Kabila defiant on third term)...

According to Kabila's spokesman Lambert Mendé Omalanga Félix Tshisekedi proposed the dialogue but critics suggest that the switch in tactics is more about pressure and inducements from the presidency than a real change of heart in the UDPS...

Kabila's delaying tactics have not yet been accepted beyond Félix Tshisekedi and his allies...