{"id":2300,"date":"2011-11-29T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/11\/call-to-annul-rigged-congo-vote\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:47:35","slug":"call-to-annul-rigged-congo-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/11\/29\/call-to-annul-rigged-congo-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to annul &#8216;rigged&#8217; Congo vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>29 November 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>15:47 GMT<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57012000\/jpg\/_57012220_013257274.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"Vital Kamerhe\" \/><span>Vital Kamerhe helped run Joseph Kabila&#8217;s campaign in 2006<\/span><\/div>\n<p>One of the main opposition candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s election says it should be cancelled because of fraud and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Vital Kamerhe says the rigging was on a large scale and &#8220;deliberately planned&#8221; with pre-marked ballot papers.<\/p>\n<p>He was a close ally of President Joseph Kabila before the pair fell out in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Many voters were unable to cast their ballots on Monday and so polling was extended until Tuesday in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>However, the BBC&#8217;s Christophe Pons visited one such polling station in the capital, Kinshasa, and found that voting had still not taken place by Tuesday lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>Angry residents told him that there were 1,300 registered voters but only 100 ballot papers had been received.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kamerhe&#8217;s aides also accused the UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo of showing bias towards Mr Kabila.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Etienne Tshisekedi, seen as the strongest challenger to Mr Kabila, made similar accusations.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 November 2011 Last updated at 15:47 GMT Vital Kamerhe helped run Joseph Kabila&#8217;s campaign in 2006 One of the main opposition candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s election says it should be cancelled because of fraud and violence. 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