Kabila Maintains Lead - Angola Move Troops

Kabila maintains his enormous lead and remains comfortably above 50 percent. With 82 of the 169 counting centers reporting, Kabila has 54.9% of the votes while Jean Pierre Bemba has 16.7%. The votes for Kinshasa which accounts for 12% of the electorate have yet to be reported. Many candidates and activists believe the Kinshasa votes in particular are being manipulated to assure that Kabila gets through in the first round.

The president of the Electoral Commission, Malu Malu maintains that the final results will be announced on or before Sunday, August 20th. He says 93.4 percent of the presidential votes and 44.6 percent of the legislative votes have been counted.

Friends of the Congo has maintained that the aim of the Independent Electoral Commission and the international community has been to maintain Kabila in power by any means using the elections as a cover to do so. The movement of the Angolan troops to the border of the Congo, coupled with the European troops concentrating in Kinshasa and the Kasai provinces are clear signs that the international community and Congo's neighbors are prepared to install Kabila by force. They know that the pro-democracy forces in the Congo who fought against Mobutu, Kabila's father and now Kabila the son, will not quietly accept his installation.

Below are results to date of voting for the candidates:

KABILA KABANGE Joseph 3 743 573
BEMBA GOMBO Jean Pierre 1 136 905
MOBUTU NZANGA NGBANGAWE François Joseph 246 063
KASHALA LUKUMUENDA Oscar 227 568
GIZENGA Antoine 183 785
PAY PAY wa SYAKASSIGHE Pierre 175 785
LUNDA BULULU Vincent de Paul 170 465
RUBERWA MANYWA Azanias 135 975
MATUSILA MALUNGENINE KONGO Pierre Anatole 69 463
M'POYO KASA-VUBU Justine 61 014
MBUSA NYAMWISI Antipas 56 178
N'LANDU KAVIDI Wivine 43 505
NGOMA Z'AHIDI Arthur 41 789
DIOMI NDONGALA Eugène 40 069
BANYNGELA KASONGA 39 570
LUMUMBA Guy Patrice 38 303
KABATU SUILA Bernard Emmanuel 37 588
NZUZI WA MBOMBO Catherine Marthe 34 153
MUKUNGUBILA MUTOMBO Paul Joseph 32 006
LUMBALA Roger 31 462
BONIOMA KALOKOLA ALOU 31 286
NIEMBA SOUGA Jacob 27 642
KAMANDA WA KAMANGA Gérard 26 363
MBOSO N'KODIA PWANGA Christophe 23 677
MBUYI KALALA ALAFUELE 23 644
NLANDU MPOLO NENE Marie Thérèse 22 758
MOKONDA BONZA Florentin 22 045
MUKAMBA KADIATA NZEMBA Jonas 20 544
OLENGHANKOY MUKUNDJI Joseph 18 411
LIKULIA BOLONGO Norbert 12 347
THASSINDA UBA THASSINDA Hassan 12 163
MUYIMA NDJOKO Osée 12 122
MOLEKA NZULAMA Timothée 8 678

TOTAL 6 806 899
Source: http://www.cei-rdc.cd/clcr/index.html