Africa’s second-largest country by land mass, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is scheduled to go to the polls on December 20, 2023. President Felix Tshisekedi will be seeking re-election. However, his first tenure has been decidedly mixed.
Tshisekedi’s first term has been defined by three major factors: questions over the legitimacy of his 2019 election victory, violence in Eastern DRC and the state of the country’s economy.
