Political news in the DRC: Creation of the ACN platform for a new Congo
On Thursday, June 08, 2023, several members of civil society, citizen movements, political organizations and independent personalities created the political platform “Alternative Pour un Congo Nouveau” (ACN). The main objective of this political platform is to constitute the third political way in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the sidelines of the electoral deadlines scheduled for December 2023.
During a press conference organized at the Center d’Etude pour l’Action Sociale (CEPAS), the members of the platform stressed that it is time to put an end to the predatory system of governance that has led the country to bankruptcy. . For them, a new governance that prioritizes the collective well-being of citizens over partisan interests must be developed. They said they were aware that the collective well-being of the Congolese is still not assured despite the wealth and all the potential available to the country in order to position itself at the rendezvous of development and modernization.
The political platform “Alternative Pour un Congo Nouveau” is committed to qualitatively renewing the Congolese political class by favoring young people and women, to restoring the dignity of Congolese by transforming potential into wealth and distributing it fairly to citizens. Likewise, it undertakes to put an end to the system of governance which it describes as predatory which, according to its members, is at the root of the bankruptcy in which the DRC finds itself.
It is important to emphasize that the creation of this political platform a few months before the presidential and legislative elections is a sign of the Congolese people’s desire to unite to put an end to the socio-economic and political crisis that the country has been going through for decades