Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2011
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Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Democratic Republic of the Congo on 28 November 2011; a facultative run-off on 26 February 2012 was shelved with a change in election laws.
The government passed laws to abolish the second round of the presidential election and tried to change the legislative electoral system from proportional to majority representation, which has been strongly criticised by the opposition.
Concerns have been raised about the transparency of the elections by a number of international organizations, which have called for an increase in the number of observers. Criticism has also been raised about the neglect of international organizations, namely the United Nations and the European Union in their support for the elections in the DR Congo.
On 8 November 2011 opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi declared himself president saying the majority of people turned against President Kabila.
On 28 November 2011 elections were held under difficult conditions. There were incidents of violence throughout the country and chaotic voting. Because of violence and delays in the delivery of ballot boxes elections were extended by a second day.
DR Congo's National Independent Electoral Commission has registered 32 million voters for the November elections.
First results released on 2 December 2011, with 15% of the vote counted (mostly in areas considered Kabila strongholds), gave Kabila only a narrow lead of 940,000 votes (52%) against 912,000 votes (34%) for UPDS leader Tshisekedi;Vital Kamerhe had 4.5% of the votes.
With half the precincts counted, President Joseph Kabila was leading with 4.9 million votes, or nearly 49%. His opponent Etienne Tshisekedi was trailing with 3.4 million votes, about 34%. However, this count did not include much of Kinshasa, where Tshisekedi was expected to have strong results. Kabila recently ceased all email and sms services nationwide. It is also said that over 5.000.000 of pre ticked ballot papers for the number 3 candidate (kabila), However no formal actions were taken by the CENI, which led to the population to act as they burned pre ticked ballot papers that were found.
The announcement of final results was postponed to 8 December 2011; with over two thirds of the vote counted, Kabila led with 46% to Tshisekedi's 36%.
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