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Party politics ban lifted

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    NAIROBI

    The ban on party politics in the DRC has been lifted, but only for groups whose leaders are able to satisfy certain criteria, Reuters reported. According to a decree signed by Kabila yesterday, parties must file their applications with the interior ministry which has up to three months to process them. Among other restrictions, aspiring parties must pay the local equivalent of a US $10,000 fee; all parties must have a total of 150 founding members drawn from each of the country’s provinces; and these founding members need clearance from the attorney general that they have not been involved in economic or political crimes since independence.

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