Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Administratives, Département des Sciences Politiques et Administratives, Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
In this study, it has been shown that the contexts and conditions in which political parties are born and evolve have an influence on the behavior of militants. At the end of the constitution of February 18, 2006 of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the political parties have the mission to ensure the strengthening of national consciousness and civic education.
However, within Congolese political parties in general, and in the UDPS and PPRD in particular, this notion is almost systematically absent. These two parties which were in coalition although all advocating social democracy as an ideology, are, beyond their typological divergence, that is to say one radical and the other conservative, born in different contexts. The UDPS, born in 1982 as an opposition party to counterbalance the Mobutu regime, despite being already in power, the legacy of opponents is still present in the heads of its activists who sometimes misunderstand what is this a rule of law. At the headquarters of kasumbalesa in Haut-Katanga when the UDPS flag went up everyone was forced to stop! It is therefore a partitocratic regime in the making, the young people of the UDPS are gradually assimilating to the imbonerakure of the CNDD-FDD in BURUNDI.
With regard to the PPRD, born in 2002 as a ruling party and which ruled the country for more than a decade, characterized by mismanagement, corruption, embezzlement, embezzlement of public funds, muzzling of the political opposition, the cult of personality, … considered itself during this coalition, rightly or wrongly, as the presidential party. Sometimes threatening the end of the coalition, "If the coalition partner no longer wants it, as far as we are concerned, we will draw the necessary constitutional consequences, that is to say go straight ahead and without hesitation to cohabitation,” said PPRD permanent secretary Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary one day. On Wednesday July 8, 2020 a violent clash took place in Lubumbashi between the militants of the UDPS and the PPRD. These two political parties in coalition, with regard to the behaviors that characterize them, due to the conditions in which they were born and evolved, are more tigers than lambs.
This article aims to demonstrate in order to propose possible solutions, the governance of public affairs by political parties. In other words, it examines the role played by political parties and/or political groupings in the management of public affairs at a time of consensual management of the country, while emphasizing the posture of Congolese politicians who are more at listening to the watchwords of the parties and consequently relegating to the background the institutional collaboration as provided for by the constitution. Indeed, good governance is at the heart of the development policies advocated by international institutions. However, in fragile states like the DRC, its implementation comes up against strong resistance. The rule of law that the DRC wants to be is one in which the Constitution imposes on everyone, that is to say, on the State itself, on its agents and on the rulers, respect for the rules of law. Unfortunately, the management of resources in the DRC is far from approaching the principles of good governance to which the Democratic Republic of Congo claims through its constitution of February 18, 2006. It is observed that the actors involved in the management of public affairs act not, on behalf of the higher interest of the Nation but on the contrary, by conforming to the dictate of their political parties or political regrouping, which led us to qualify suddenly, the DRC of a State-parties.