The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Superior Council of the Judiciary organized an exchange workshop on the management of electoral disputes and the lessons to be drawn from them. The event lasted three days, during which legal experts from the CENI and senior judges from different courts in the country discussed the various innovations introduced by the electoral law, in particular the questions relating to the threshold of admissibility of the lists and the legal regime. comprehensive on electronic and semi-electronic voting.
The meeting was contextualized by the 2nd Vice-President of the electoral commission, Didi MANARA LINGA representing President Denis KADIMA KAZADI who was prevented. Representatives of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the Constitutional Court and the Ministry of Justice also attended the exchange workshop.
The discussions were led by leading figures in the judiciary and the CENI, and focused on various aspects of the elections in the DRC, in particular the economy and context of the law on the identification and registration of voters, the electoral law, the threshold of admissibility in terms of candidacies, the definition of an exhaustive legal regime on electronic and semi-electronic voting, electoral systems, the effects of the exception of unconstitutionality on electoral disputes, the threshold of representativeness, the administration evidence in electoral matters and the cancellation of ballots.
The organization of this workshop reflects the CENI’s desire to strengthen the theoretical and practical knowledge of stakeholders in the electoral process on various aspects of elections in the DRC. The exchanges also recall the importance of the judiciary in the stability of institutions during electoral disputes.
In short, this exchange workshop made it possible to strengthen the links between the CENI and the Superior Council of the Judiciary on the issues of electoral disputes. The exchanges also enabled legal experts and senior magistrates to discuss the various innovations introduced by the electoral law and to understand them in order to better apply them during the next elections.