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 extra term around some sort of location reeling from lower income and pummeled by simply war, has been leading Saturday along with 50.3 percent in early results of an election marred by simply techie difficulties and accusations regarding favoritism.

The travel of the election commission Daniel Ngoy Mulunda released land by province tallies this individual mentioned amounted to help 33 percent of most voting bureaus.

An Associated Press collection of the specific final results showed that President Joseph Kabila had been ahead having 3.27 million belonging to the 6.48 million ballots counted consequently far.

Opposition chief Etienne Tshisekedi had been walking together with 2.23 million votes, or 34.4 percent but said the lording it over party-dominated election commission hasn't been publishing results from opposition strongholds.

Tshisekedi's supporters on Saturday bitten the motor car of your company of foreign correspondents, accusing the foreign community connected with propping up Kabila if you want to support your ex succeed re-election.

The vote possesses lived with significant specialised glitches, like idea that airplanes hauling ballots this morning weren't able to abandon promptly on account of some sort of turbo storm.

Monday's vote was mandated to often be prolonged for a few days so that they can present porters transporting ballots on their own heads, with bicycles, within canoes, in wheelbarrows as well as in all-terrain cars or trucks period to achieve the actual remote edges of this enormous nation at the heart regarding Africa.

The discharge of final results has been triggering further friction. The opposition priced that will this judgment party, which includes nearly all bike seats on the actual selection commission, seemed to be maliciously explelling benefits exclusively from pro-Kabila areas.

The district on the country smallest manifested inside results produced Saturday is actually Kinshasa, your capital, a good opposition stronghold that will Kabila dropped while in the 2006 election.

The results introduced from Kinshasa stand for only 3.33 percent with the capital's precincts, said Mulunda. Tshisekedi had thus far attained about twice numerous votes these than Kabila, nearly 43,000 compared to the 23,000 placed for any incumbent.

In a statement, that competitors leader's gathering said, "It is alarming in which polling data will be released, appears selected in order to exhibit a favorable error towards Kabila."

The election should be only Congo's second democratic vote within its 51-year history, as well as the first that they are organized by simply the government as opposed to because of the global community.

Poll workers on Friday during among the list of three compilation focuses in Kinshasa complained belonging to the idea that they will possessed not necessarily been recently presented almost anything to eat or maybe drink. The head with the precinct was asleep throughout their chair, their scalp folded back.

When election payment employees attempted to rouse your ex boyfriend that will require him some sort of question, he exposed his eyes after which simply fell asleep again.