Tshisekedi re-elected DR Congo president as opposition calls vote a ‘farce’

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi waves to his supporters after casting his ballot inside a polling station in Kinshasa [File: Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP]

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi won re-election with more than 70 percent of the vote, the country’s election commission has announced.

The preliminary results of the December 20 election were announced in the capital, Kinshasa, on Sunday amid demands from the opposition and some civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to massive logistical problems that put the validity of the outcome into question.