The Congolese election commission still hasn’t come out with its new election calendar yet, as internal negotiations continue. However, parliament has begin debating a new election law that could make presidential candidates pay $100,000 to register, with the price tag for legislative candidates set at $5,000. This would be a heavy burden to bear for some poorer parties – if you try to field a presidential candidate plus national assembly candidates for all of the country’s seats in the national assembly, that would come to $2,600,000 just for registering your candidates.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[I apologizes for my brief absence, largely linked to the publication of my book. Hopefully I’ll be more regular in the coming week.] A few important news stories: The Securities…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t