François-Joseph Nzanga Mobutu last Thursday, March 10, was the
resignation on Friday, March 11, of the Minister of External Trade,
Bernard Biando, a member of Mobutu's UDEMO party.
Biando's resignation means the end of the alliance between UDEMO and
the AMP and, hence, a slight weakening of the presidential caucus in
the National Assembly.
AMP is a cartel grouping more than 50 political parties with major
alliances with PALU, the Prime Minister's party, and, till the firing
of Mobutu, with UDEMO.
Friday evening, the Raïs fired Philippe Undji, Minister of Rural
Development, for unspecified reasons.
With these changes, a cabinet reshuffle is expected to take place soon.
Still last week, in an unrelated development, the Provincial Assembly
of the southwestern Bandundu Province impeached Governor Richard
Ndambu, allied with the AMP, for "bad governance" and "embezzlement."
What's significant about this impeachment is that Governor Ndambu was
deposed by an assembly dominated by his own political alliance.
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