It is the State Council that announced the holding of this election, it should take place in the meeting room of the board of directors of the Federation of Enterprises of Congo (FEC), in the presence of court bailiffs and witnesses of the candidate. For this second election, there is still only one candidate, Dieudonné Kasembo Nyembo, managing partner of Gecotrans and president of the SME commission at the FEC.

He was one of the two candidates excluded in the first election and had contested it. For his detractors, he is a close associate of President Félix Tshisekedi parachuted in to replace Albert Yuma, the boss of Gecamines, known to be close to his predecessor.

" It looks like a power struggle "

The board of directors of the FEC had rejected the State Council's decision, arguing that it was not within its competence to interfere in its internal affairs. Its secretary general had refused to comply with the request to organize the new election.

Among the ranks of the administrators of the Congolese business community, people were wondering Tuesday evening whether the State Council would manage to organize it within the FEC's premises or even if a quorum would be reached, knowing that a majority vote is needed from more than one hundred members. On the side of the Congolese presidency, there was also a sense of anticipation. " It looks like a sport called arm wrestling ", acknowledged a close associate of President Tshisekedi.