Tshisekedi will Win Elections – New York University Center on International Cooperation 

18th December 2023

On December 20th, 40 million voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo will go to the polls to vote for their preferred presidential candidate.

According to New York University’s Congo Research Group and Ebutelli, its research partner in the DRC, along with the Bureau d’etudes, de recherche et de consulting international (BERCI), the incumbent will win the elections with 49.3% in the first past the post elections. Moise Katumbi, former Governor of Katanga whose hopes of victory presumably floundered with an expose on his alleged Zambian citizenship is expected to come in second with 28.1% of the votes, while Martin Fayulu, former ExxonMobil Executive is expected to garner 6.9% of the aggregated votes.

John Apea, Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council Head of Mission writes:

“This is an important election for DRC, Africa and the Private sector. A win for Tshisekedi will boost Investor confidence from the private sector of the Commonwealth and the rest of the world”.

He added: “the randomised research from the respected New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, with a large population size of 450 000, a sample size of 4680 and a Confidence Interval of 99% shows that the incumbent will be given a new mandate by the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.”