Forces for Renewal
Forces for Renewal Forces du Renouveau | |
|---|---|
Senate | 7 / 108 |
The Forces for Renewal (
Democratic Republic of Congo. The party originated as a breakaway faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy
(RCD).
History
The RCD-K-ML was accorded 15 seats in the Transitional National Assembly and participated in the Transitional Government headed by Joseph Kabila.
Human Rights Watch has accused RCD-K-ML of conscripting
child soldiers.[2] They were also involved in the Ituri conflict
.
Their leader,
2011 general election
, the Forces for Renewal lost 20 seats in the National Assembly.
It won seven out of 108 seats in the indirect
elections to the Senate
.
It joined the government of Antoine Gizenga where Mbusa became Foreign Minister.
In 2022, the party condemned the violence during the anti-MONUSCO protests in the eastern DR Congo.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Le RCD/K-ML condamne les actes de violence contre les sites de la MONUSCO et en appelle à leur cessation immédiate". RadioOkapi. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ CHILDREN ASSOCIATED WITH ARMED FORCES AND GROUPS Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2006-01-31, accessed on 2007-02-11
| Major parliamentary parties |
|
|---|---|
| Major boycotting party | |
| |
  | This article about a Democratic Republic of the Congo political party is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |