DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
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Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 185th session
(Geneva, 21 October 2009)
The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Referring to the case of the above-mentioned parliamentarians, all elected members of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose mandates, along with those of five others, were invalidated, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/185/11(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 184th session (April 2009),
Taking note of the meeting that the Committee held during the 121st Assembly with the delegation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and with several of the former parliamentarians concerned,
Recalling that the election of the persons concerned in the July 2006 elections was invalidated by the Supreme Court in a ruling of 5 May 2007 which the National Assembly, in a resolution it adopted on 17 July 2007, criticized as being “fraught with irregularities and grave violations” and requested the President of the Republic “to envisage any possible political solution in favour of the victims of the injustice of the Supreme Court of Justice within the framework of reconciliation and national solidarity with a view to safeguarding civil peace in the country”,
Noting that negotiations are under way to find a solution as envisaged in the National Assembly’s resolution,
- Is pleased at the prospect of a settlement of this case in the near future;
- Recalls, nevertheless, that the arbitrary invalidation of election results violates not only the right of the persons concerned to exercise their parliamentary mandate, but also the right of the voters to be represented by persons of their choice,
- Earnestly hopes that the parliament will take the necessary legislative and oversight steps to ensure that no such cases recur;
- Requests the Committee to continue examining this case and report to it at its next session, to be held on the occasion of the 122nd IPU Assembly (March-April 2010), when it hopes to be able to close the case.
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