KINSHASA, Congo — Congo runner-up Martin Fayulu announced on Friday he will file a court challenge to the presidential election results, while his opposition coalition asserted he actually received 61 per cent of the vote according to the findings of the influential Catholic Church’s observers. Fayulu urged that Congo’s electoral commission publish detailed results, polling station by polling station, and said he would file his court challenge on Saturday morning. Some Fayulu supporters have worried that the constitutional court could invalidate the results, keeping Kabila in power until a new election. There are two options, electoral commission president Corneille Nangaa told the U.N. Security Council on Friday: The official results are accepted or the vote is annulled. The difference between Tshisekedi and Fayulu in official results was some 684,000 votes.

Source: National Post January 11, 2019 11:50 UTC