Moreover, upon the initiative of the President of the Republic, national cons...

Moreover, upon the initiative of the President of the Republic, national consultations are to begin in August. Their purpose is to endeavour together to find ways and means to enhance national unity in order to better cope with all of the challenges facing the Congolese nation. In an effort to be inclusive, the forum will gather together, in addition to national and provincial political institutions, political parties of all persuasions, civil society in all its diversity, and a significant representation of women and youth. Its preparation and administration has been entrusted to a presidium consisting of the President of the Senate — a leader well known to the opposition, on whose behalf he was elected to his post — and the President of the National Assembly, a functionary of the presidential majority.