DRC President Laurent-Desire Kabila on Monday installed the constituent and legislative assembly in Lubumbashi, DRC state television reported. It quoted Kabila as saying it was an “historic day in the life of a people who have always resisted foreign domination”. Kabila reportedly handed over his legislative powers to the assembly. “I have a mission during this inauguration,” Reuters quoted Kabila as saying. “That is to transfer power to the assembly...And I am doing that with all my heart, knowing that you will defend...unrelentingly the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country, that you will rebuild the pride of the Congolese people,” he said. A government-selected committee chose some 240 deputies for the new parliament out of 10,000 applicants and the president himself named the remaining 60 deputies.
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