Election Commission - Congo's Kabila Leads Election In Early Results - The Associated Press

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) Congo's president, in search of a subsequent period in the nation reeling through poverty and also pummeled by war, appeared to be leading Saturday along with 50.3 percent in early benefits of your election marred by specialised complications and accusations involving favoritism.

The travel with the selection commission Daniel Ngoy Mulunda released province simply by province tallies he claimed amounted to 33 percentage of most voting bureaus.

An Associated Press system with the person outcome showed that will President Joseph Kabila had been ahead using 3.27 million with the 6.48 million votes counted so far.

Opposition director Etienne Tshisekedi seemed to be walking along with 2.23 thousand votes, or 34.4 percentage nonetheless believed the lording it over party-dominated election commission were release outcomes from competitors strongholds.

Tshisekedi's supporters about Saturday biten the automobile of an staff regarding unusual correspondents, accusing that global community with propping upward Kabila so as to assist him win re-election.

The vote provides encountered from massive technical glitches, including the indisputable fact that air carriers hauling ballots this morning were not able for you to give by the due date on account of a new lightning storm.

Monday's vote had to be long for three days to weeks to be able to give porters holding ballots on their heads, on bicycles, throughout canoes, throughout wheelbarrows in addition to with all-terrain cars or trucks time to succeed in your distant corners on this massive land in the centre with Africa.

The launch regarding effects had been causing more friction. The visitors recharged of which the ruling party, which has most car seats around the election commission , appeared to be maliciously releasing outcome only from pro-Kabila areas.

The district with the region minimum represented in the final results unveiled Saturday is definitely Kinshasa, the particular capital, an visitors stronghold which Kabila displaced around the particular 2006 election.

The outcomes launched coming from Kinshasa stand for solely 3.33 percent with the actual capital's precincts, explained Mulunda. Tshisekedi had to date attained about twice several votes right here as compared with Kabila, virtually 43,000 than the 23,000 solid for that incumbent.

In a statement, the actual opposition leader's party said, "It is shocking that polling facts could well be released, clearly chosen to indicate a fine bias towards Kabila."

The election is merely Congo's next democratic vote inside it is 51-year history, as well as the first that they are organized through the government besides by the international community.

Poll employees on Friday from among this a number of compilation shelving units around Kinshasa complained with the idea that these people possessed not also been granted everything to consume or drink. The mind with the precinct ended up being asleep around his chair, his or her head rolled back.

When selection money workers attempted to be able to promote him or her for you to request him a new question, this individual approved his face and after that on time dropped asleep again.