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

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) Congo's president, seeking an additional period within a region reeling from poverty as well as pummeled by simply war, had been leading Saturday by using 50.3 percent at the begining of outcome of your election marred by way of complex difficulties in addition to claims involving favoritism.

The scalp with the election commission Daniel Ngoy Mulunda unveiled land simply by state tallies they mentioned amounted to help thirty-three percentage involving many voting bureaus.

An Associated Press compilation in the individual outcomes revealed of which President Joseph Kabila ended up being onward using 3.27 million associated with the actual 6.48 thousand votes counted consequently far.

Opposition boss Etienne Tshisekedi appeared to be trailing with 2.23 trillion votes, and also 34.4 percent however said the particular lording it over party-dominated election percentage was not issuing results coming from competitors strongholds.

Tshisekedi's supporters on Saturday attacked the vehicle of the team of unusual correspondents, accusing the global community associated with propping upward Kabila as a way to aid him gain re-election.

The vote offers experienced from massive practical glitches, including the undeniable fact that airplanes transporting ballots this morning were not qualified to leave punctually on account of your super storm.

Monday's vote needed to be expanded to get about three nights in order to give porters holding ballots on his or her heads, about bicycles, in canoes, in wheelbarrows and within all-terrain cars or trucks occasion to arrive the far-away sides of the enormous land in the middle of Africa.

The release associated with effects appeared to be leading to even more friction. The others recharged the fact that ruling party, that has a lot of car seats within the election commission , had been specially releasing final results just out of pro-Kabila areas.

The place on the region the very least available within that outcome unveiled Saturday is usually Kinshasa, this capital, a strong weight stronghold this Kabila misplaced inside the 2006 election.

The results launched out of Kinshasa characterize only 3.33 p'cent belonging to the capital's precincts, mentioned Mulunda. Tshisekedi possessed thus far obtained around occasions numerous ballots below as compared to Kabila, nearly 43,000 when compared to 23,000 placed to the incumbent.

In a statement, the particular competitors leader's gathering said, "It is shocking that will polling data could well be released, obviously picked to show a favorable error near Kabila."

The election is only Congo's second democratic vote within its 51-year history, and the first that they are tidy simply by the costa rica government instead regarding because of the overseas community.

Poll trades-people on Friday at on the list of a number of compilation centers around Kinshasa complained of the undeniable fact that they will had not happen to be provided everything to take and also drink. The mind of the precinct had been asleep in his chair, his head folded back.

When election transaction fee staff experimented with to help promote him or her for you to request him a question, he exposed his face plus next rapidly chop down asleep again.