Rivals cry foul after president re-elected in DRC with 73% of vote

The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, has won a second term in office with a landslide victory, according to provisional results, in a vote that opposition leaders have dismissed as a "sham".

- Agence France-Presse

Provisional results from the single-round ballot, declared yesterday by the country's electoral commission, Ceni, showed Tshisekedi had won 73% of the vote. Moïse Katumbi - a businessman, football club owner and former provincial governor - was the runner-up with about 18%.

The DRC's constitutional court is expected to confirm the provisional results on 10 January.

Tshisekedi, 60, first came to power in January 2019 after a disputed election. Martin Fayulu- who claims he was robbed of the last presidential election - also contested this year's poll, but only won about 5% of the votes. The 20 remaining candidates, including Denis Mukwege, who won a Nobel peace prize for his work with female victims of wartime sexual violence, were either under, or hovering around, 1% of the vote.