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41: 428: 20: 1494:(CENI) as part of organizing the election cycle of 2018. The count of cities only includes those currently represented in the national and provincial assemblies and not those that became cities after the organization of the elections. Thus, for example, the new city of Uvira is not counted as a city but as a commune in the table. This of course also effects the counts of city subdivisions such as communes and quarters. 1389:. The National Alliance of Traditional Authorities of the Congo protested this reinstatement as diminishing traditional authority and as a threat to national security. In addition to reinstating the articles the government decided that disputes over boundaries would be resolved by an ad hoc committee and that the setting up of cities and communes would be prioritized with 18 cities in the initial phase. 1762:
commission presented their final report to the National Assembly. At this time their rapporteur said that organizing the local elections required a workforce of 650,000 and the allocation of considerable funds by the government. Finally, in December President Tshisekedi declared that the elections would be held sometime in 2020. This did not happen.
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The Congolese voter would have a direct say in the affairs of the province by voting in a deputy to the provincial assembly which would then go on to elect the governor. The voter was also to have a say in more local affairs by voting in a councilperson to the local council which was then, except in
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Although selected by local structures according to custom, traditional leaders can only exercise their authority if they are officially recognized and invested by the government. Failure of the government to do so can cause great resentment. In 2013 such a dispute over the leadership of a grouping
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Under the old organization the six former provinces were divided into districts and cities. The districts were further divided into territories. Each new province was created from the territories of one or two districts, adding any enclosed cities and—if necessary—making the new capital a city. The
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expert mission report for the 2018 elections criticizes the use of these divisions for national and provincial elections as not meeting international standards for uniform allocation of voters per constituency. As example they contrast 27,228 voters per National Assembly seat in the city of Inongo
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that would have the local council elections occur in December 2023 along with the elections for the president, the National Assembly, and the provincial assemblies. But, when the electoral calendar was published in November 2022, the elections for sector and chiefdom council were pushed back to 11
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Local council elections were scheduled to occur on 22 September 2019. In April of that year the League of Women Voters for the Elections met with the electoral commission and condemned the delay in starting candidate registration for the local elections. In June, the League of Voters stressed the
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which elected the provincial assemblies of the eleven provinces. Similar elections for local councils have yet to occur. Thus, the effected subdivisions have no deliberative body and their leaders, as provided by law, are unelected and appointed from above. In this way a city mayor is much like a
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Traditional authority is recognized by Article 207 of the Constitution and a law defining the legal status of traditional leaders was passed in 2015. In addition to being official leaders of their administrative divisions, these leaders exercise customary authority – which can involve traditional
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to intervene to get the process going. In August, a petition with two million signatures demanding that the elections be held was filed at the presidential palace. The signatures were collected within two months by the Catholic and Protestant Churches. At the end of October the outgoing electoral
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were appointed. The setting up of a city administration and those of its subdivisions can take years given the lack of local resources. For instance the town of Buta gained city status when it became a provincial capital in 2015, had its first mayor appointed in 2018, and by June 2019 its four
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The Constitution, as before, divides the country into the city of Kinshasa and the provinces; however, it increased the number of provinces from ten to twenty-five. This was put into effect in 2015, when the six largest provinces were split into twenty-one new provinces. Together with the four
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Reforms to devolve powers to the provinces were completed in 2006, but devolution to more local levels have again been delayed when elections scheduled for 2019 were not held. Traditional authority continues to play a significant role in governance with traditional leaders leading many of the
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powers to the provinces and, more modestly, to the cities and the subdivisions at the third administrative level. They all were to have both an executive body with a leader and a deliberative body which was to elect the leader. The other subdivisions remained purely administrative in nature.
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In order to pass a modified bill allocating seats for upcoming local elections, it was decided to suspend those articles that were contentious and to revert the affected communities to their 2006 administrative configurations. The articles granting city status to new provincial
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following table gives the complete details. So for instance, Lommami province resulted from the split of the former KasaĂŻ-Oriental province; created from the territories of the former Kabinda district, the city of Mwene-Ditu, and by making the town of Kabinda the capital city.
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Under the Third Republic, established in 2006, the number of provinces has gone from ten to twenty-five. By fits and starts the number of towns that have been, or are in the process of being, upgraded to cities has also increased greatly.
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traditional leaders. At the third and forth levels they are the leaders of 25% and 70% of the subdivisions respectively. In 2018, 64% of the electorate lived in a grouping without counting those in embedded groupings.
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The Constitution of 2006 and ensuing organic laws brought reforms to the governance of the subdivisions which are not yet complete. Table 3 sketches the envisioned governance by subdivision type and its current status.
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a chiefdom, to go on to elect the local leader. If the voter lived in a provincial city they were also to have a more indirect say, again through the local council, in the composition of the city government.
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in 2008 to 99 cities and 289 territorial communes in the reorganization. However, in July 2015 the implementation of many of the decrees' articles were suspended following the failure in the
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Kinshasa has the status of a province, but the subdivisions of a city. It is often referred to as a city-province and in many contexts is counted as the 26'th province.
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advisory councils – in a way that is not contrary to the Constitution, the law, public order and decency. The leaders are also obligated to be apolitical.
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Kolwezi was a hybrid city/district made up of two communes and two territories. The territories were split off and the rest became the provincial capital.
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In June 2013 a batch of prime ministerial decrees was issued giving city and commune status to, and setting the boundaries for, a large number of former
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So a province is divided into territories and cities; a territory into sectors, chiefdoms, and communes; a sector or chiefdom into groupings; and so on.
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Traditional leaders have a significant role in governing the subdivisions. At the first administrative level, 8% of all provincial deputies are
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In the Congo a commune can now be an urban subdivision of a city, a country town, or in some cases a mostly rural area attached to a city.
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Ultimately the planned for local elections never occurred, but the suspensions were not lifted until mid-2018 just months before the
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Except for the four National Assembly districts in Kinshasa, all electoral districts in Table 4 are administrative divisions. The
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and other populated places. According to the government's 2014 statistical yearbook the Congo would go from 21 cities and 227
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The grouping (of villages) and, at a higher level, the chiefdom are subdivisions led by customary leaders of traditional
3196: 3143:"RDC : la CENI envisage l'organisation des Ă©lections du PrĂ©sident, des dĂ©putĂ©s et des conseillers en dĂ©cembre 2023" 2619:"ArrĂŞtĂ© Interministeriel n° 25/CAB/VPM/MININTERSEC/HMS/081/2018 & n° CAB/ME/MIN.DRI/ARN/FKT/007/2018 du 30 Mai 2018" 3294: 3065:"Elections municipales et locales : les femmes politiques dĂ©plorent le retard dans la convocation de l'Ă©lectorat" 2932: 2821:"Bas-Uele : Â» Buta peine Ă  se faire ville suite Ă  l'incivisme fiscal Â», dixit le maire Charlie Kwateba" 3926: 1382:—were not suspended and neither were those granting commune status to the administrative centers of the territories. 40: 2880:"Loi organique n° 10/011 du 18 mai 2010 portant fixation des subdivisions territoriales Ă  l'intĂ©rieur des provinces" 3365: 3257: 1041: 479: 3279: 706:
Some collectivities are not a contiguous area of land but are made up instead of more than one unconnected area.
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Co-opted members are traditional leaders selected by their peers following strict rules including term limits.
375: 3966: 3306: 873: 4076: 4066: 3871: 4081: 3971: 3901: 3045: 3017: 4141: 4061: 4026: 4011: 3996: 3951: 3886: 3823: 2969:"Democratic Republic of the Congo 2018 Harmonized Presidential, Parliamentary and Provincial Elections" 2474: 4192: 2846: 2652:"DĂ©centralisation : les autoritĂ©s traditionnelles de la RDC en colère contre le Premier ministre" 4016: 3593: 4116: 4091: 3941: 3936: 3916: 3881: 3866: 2044: 4188: 4170: 4101: 4071: 4056: 4041: 4031: 4021: 3986: 3981: 3931: 3876: 3851: 2659: 1792: 1241: 487: 891: 4111: 4106: 4046: 4001: 3961: 3856: 1220: 2707:"Sud-Kivu : Les maires de villes nouvellement crĂ©Ă©es reçus par le Gouverneur de Province" 2589: 2104: 4086: 4036: 3991: 3976: 3956: 3946: 3921: 3861: 3816: 1121: 3226: 689:, previously a division of a province and territory respectively, have been abolished. The 4096: 4006: 3896: 1862: 1753:
territory administrator. For now the Congolese voter does not have a say in local affairs.
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gouverneur, administrateur de territoire (AT), maire, bourgmestre, chef de secteur,
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However, in February 2022 the new electoral commission published a roadmap for the
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There are uninhabited areas that are not part of any subdivision below a territory.
2906: 2734:"Territoriale-Kasumbalesa : AndrĂ© Kapamba premier maire de la nouvelle ville" 1029: 3608: 3333: 1283: 1083: 823: 810: 797: 753:—they make up the twenty-five provinces listed in Article 2 of the Constitution. 1275: 1262: 1254: 1016: 835: 818: 111: 2531:"RDC : l'installation des nouvelles provinces va se faire en deux phases" 703:), is sometimes used for convenience to refer to both a sector and a chiefdom. 4234: 3360: 3355: 3301: 2763: 1936: 1914: 1371: 1233: 804: 738: 483: 3041:"RDC: la Ligue des Ă©lecteurs insiste sur l'importance des Ă©lections locales" 2688:. Cahiers africains (in French). Vol. 87. Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan. 1770:
July 2024 leaving only the commune elections to be run on 20 December 2023.
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An embedded grouping is a grouping that has been absorbed into a commune.
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eventually led, through an escalation of conflicts in 2016, to the
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A quarter has divisions but these are not set down by organic law.
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Each Commune Council elects four members of the City Council.
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The Constitution divides the country into the capital city of
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Chiefdoms and sectors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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of an electoral bill based on the boundaries in the decrees.
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Table 3. Governance of subdivisions after reforms in brief
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Institut National de la Statistique–RD Congo (July 2015).
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Former districts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Table 4. Electoral districts of the 2018 election cycle
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Table 2. 2018 Subdivision count by administrative level
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Journal officiel de la RĂ©publique DĂ©mocratique du Congo
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Journal officiel de la RĂ©publique DĂ©mocratique du Congo
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Subdivisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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DR Congo provinces, territories, and cities (2018).
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No. 1325. pp. 6–7. 2138: 2126: 2053:, DĂ©cret n° 13/020–13/030 du 13 juin 2013. 1313: 466: 452: 3087: 2370: 1724: 1492:Independent National Electoral Commission 1490:Table 2 is based on data compiled by the 1412: 2845: 2199: 2179: 2002: 1773: 1757:importance of these elections and asked 486:with a five-level hierarchy of types of 18: 16:Territorial organization of the DR Congo 2162:Level 1–4 tabulated from data found at 1989: 1979:Constituencies in the National Assembly 761:Table 1. 2015 Repartioning by district 4233: 3119: 2984: 2953:from the original on 20 September 2018 2818: 2705:Balongelwa, Enoch (12 February 2019). 2635:from the original on 30 September 2019 2555: 2358: 2272: 2150: 2115:ArrĂŞtĂ© Interministeriel n° 25/.../2018 2086: 2065:, pp. 28–29, Tableau 1.2 and 1.3. 1803: 3812: 3230: 3213:from the original on 30 November 2022 3127:from the original on 14 November 2019 3025:from the original on 26 February 2020 2985:Lubaki, Corneille (30 October 2019). 2904: 2890:from the original on 21 February 2019 2864:from the original on 21 February 2019 2804:from the original on 23 February 2020 2784: 2758: 2744:from the original on 12 February 2020 2574:from the original on 14 December 2015 2541:from the original on 1 September 2017 2423:from the original on 21 February 2019 2284: 2167: 2163: 1929:But seats are allocated by grouping. 1675:by tradition or other local practice 1409:communes were still not operational. 1392:In 2019 mayors for the new cities of 3153:from the original on 3 February 2022 2997:from the original on 1 November 2019 2976:Carter Center: Expert Mission Report 2489:from the original on 12 January 2020 2385:, pp. 3, 4, 14, 25, 37, 38, 80. 1798: 1591:Council elected by commune councils 4246:Administrative divisions by country 2931: 2515:from the original on 1 October 2017 2382: 2346: 2333: 2039:Bouvier & Omasombo Tshonda 2016 726: 390:in Democratic Republic of the Congo 13: 4251:Administrative divisions in Africa 3105:from the original on 19 March 2019 2717:from the original on 16 April 2019 2459:from the original on 12 March 2019 498:subdivisions at the lower levels. 14: 4262: 3349:Transitional Government (2003–06) 2905:Musau, Mathy (12 December 2019). 2819:Okonda, Francois (13 June 2019). 2791:Rapport Annuel Juin 2016–Mai 2017 2590:"DĂ©cret n° 18/020 du 30 mai 2018" 1596:(leaders are currently appointed) 1553:Assembly of elected and co-opted 1473:6,070 groupings + 2,401 quarters 699:An older term, collectivity (fr. 693:has been replaced by the commune. 4137:Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic 3907:Democratic Republic of the Congo 3258:Democratic Republic of the Congo 3089:"Setting Fire to Your Own House" 2658:(in French). 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Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Constitution
Human rights
President
list
FĂ©lix Tshisekedi
Government
Prime Minister
list
Judith Suminwa
Cabinet
current cabinet
Parliament
Senate
President
National Assembly
President
Constitutional Court
Court of Cassation
Administrative divisions
Provinces
governors
Territories
Cities
Sectors
Chiefdoms
Communes
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