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  • DR Congo's prime minister indicated Thursday that he would quit, as an overwhelming majority emerged in parliament for President Felix Tshisekedi, who has been embroiled in a struggle for power with supporters of his predecessor. Lawmakers on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly backed a motion to censure Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, an ally of former president Joseph Kabila. Under the constitution, the prime minister is required to tender his resignation to the head of state within 24 hours of censure. "I await notification of this decision to take up my responsibilities in line with the constitution," Ilunga said in a statement. The vote marked a step forward in Tshisekedi's bid to wrest the levers of power from supporters of Kabila, who ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2001 until stepping down in 2018. Tshisekedi took office in January 2019 after elections that were criticised for irregularities but enabled the DRC's first peaceful transition since independence in 1960. But he was also obliged to go into a power-sharing deal with Kabila supporters, who at that time wielded a majority in the National Assembly. Tensions swiftly emerged over the formation of a coalition government and reached breaking point last year when Tshisekedi complained that his programme of reforms was being stymied. On December 6, he announced the end to the coalition and intended to seek a new government supported by the National Assembly. A presidential envoy, Senator Modeste Bahati, who had been working to secure this majority, said Thursday that 391 MPs in the 500-seat assembly now supported Tshisekedi's proposed "Sacred Union of the Nation". In a letter posted on his office's website, Ilunga on Wednesday hit out at the National Assembly's provisional bureau, which oversees parliamentary procedure. He lashed the "notorious motion of censure" as "no more than a political manoeuvre with no basis in fact, flouting the requirements of the state of law." Kabila took the helm of the DRC in 2001, succeeding his father, Laurent-Desire Kabila, after he was assassinated by a bodyguard. Still only 49 years old despite his 18 years in office, the ex-president retains extensive clout through allies in politics, the military and business. st-bmb/ri/gd
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  • DR Congo PM signals intention to quit after censure
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