The Congolese Supreme Court issued a verdict on a few of the legislative election disputes yesterday. I have posted a roll of the decisions here. In general, the court went against a few weighty interests, including by invalidating the two brothers of election commissioner Ngoy Mulunda (other members of the presidential majority took their places), as well as heavyweights similar to Jean-Jacques Mutuale (MLC), Anzuluni Bembe (opposition, former Mobutu strongman), Colette Tshomba (former deputy minister), Jean-Claude Baende (majority, governor of Equateur) and Jerome Kamate (opposition, former deputy minister).
The list comprises 32 invalidations of elected MPs; most of the disputes were between members of the ruling coalition. If I am counting correctly, three opposition MPs lost their seats to the ruling coalition, though the opposite does not seem to have occurred.
At the same time, the Supreme Court called for the left over results from the rest of the country to be at large reversing the election commission's cancellation of the legislative vote everywhere except for Masisi, where a original vote will need to be held.
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