And to think we thought our election process was stymied
DR Congo votes amid delays and violence
In some areas, the ballot paper ran to several pages and resembles a newspaper because there are so many parliamentary candidates.
- More than 30 million voters
- More than 19,000 parliamentary candidates
- 500 parliamentary seats
- MPs paid $6,000 (£3,887) a month
- The Kinshasa ballot will be a 56-page booklet of more than 1,500
candidates- 11 presidential candidates
- 4,000 tonnes of ballot papers
- 61 helicopters and 20 planes are delivering the election material
This is likely to have caused some confusion in a country where one-third of adults cannot read or write.
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