A man leaves as witnesses at a polling station in Kinshasa sign a printout of a electronic voting machine results on December 31, 2018, a day after the presidential elections.
What Happened The Democratic Republic of the Congo's independent electoral commission has blamed logistical problems for slowing the process of gathering and counting ballots cast in the Dec. 30 presidential election, causing it to miss its Jan. 6 deadline to unveil official results. The commission has offered no new timeline for when the winner could be announced. In the meantime, representatives of the Roman Catholic Church (a well-respected institution in the country) have said that the church knows who has won the election and have called on the electoral commission to reveal the results. According to a Jan. 4 report by The New York Times, sources within the church indicated that opposition candidate Martin Fayulu won the contest. If true, that result will like set up a showdown between the political opposition and supporters of President Joseph Kabila over who will succeed him.
