[ Naissance des partis politiques et comportement des militants: Regard sur l’UDPS et le PPRD ]
Volume 37, Issue 1, August 2022, Pages 70–80
Pungu Mukumbi Denis1, Shabani Moricho Dauda2, Mwamba Wa Mwamba Cléophas3, and Djessy Nyasingini Clémentine4
1 Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Administratives, Département des Sciences Politiques et Administratives, Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
2 Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
3 Université de Lubumbashi, Faculté des sciences sociales, politiques et administratives, RD Congo
4 Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
Original language: French
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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.
Author Keywords: Political parties, Coalition, UDPS, PPRD, Radical Party, Conservative Party.
Volume 37, Issue 1, August 2022, Pages 70–80
Pungu Mukumbi Denis1, Shabani Moricho Dauda2, Mwamba Wa Mwamba Cléophas3, and Djessy Nyasingini Clémentine4
1 Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Administratives, Département des Sciences Politiques et Administratives, Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
2 Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
3 Université de Lubumbashi, Faculté des sciences sociales, politiques et administratives, RD Congo
4 Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2022 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
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.
Author Keywords: Political parties, Coalition, UDPS, PPRD, Radical Party, Conservative Party.
Abstract: (french)
Dans la présente étude, il a été démontré que les contextes et conditions dans lesquels sont nés et évoluent les partis politiques, ont une influence sur le comportement des militants. Au terme de la constitution du 18 février 2006 de République Démocratique du Congo, les partis politiques ont la mission d’assurer le renforcement de la conscience nationale et l’éducation civique. Cependant, au sein des partis politiques congolais en général, et à l’UDPS et au PPRD en particulier, cette notion est quasi-systématiquement absente. Ces deux partis qui étaient en coalition bien que prônant tous, la social-démocratie comme idéologie, sont, au-delà de leur divergence typologique c’est-à-dire l’un radical et l’autre conservateur, nés dans les contextes différents. L’UDPS, née en 1982 comme parti d’opposition pour faire contrepoids au régime Mobutu, malgré étant déjà au pouvoir les séquelles d’opposants sont encore présentes dans les têtes de ses militants qui, parfois comprennent mal c’est qu’est-ce un Etat de droit. Au siège de kasumbalesa dans le Haut-Katanga quand le drapeau de l’UDPS montait tout le monde était obligé de s’arrêter ! C’est donc un régime partitocratique en gestation, les jeunes de l’UDPS s’assimilent petit à petit aux imbonerakure du CNDD-FDD au BURUNDI. S’agissant du PPRD, né en 2002 comme parti au pouvoir et qui a dirigé le pays pendant plus d’une décennie, caractérisé par la mégestion, la corruption, la malversation, le détournement de deniers publics, le musellement de l’opposition politique, le culte de personnalité, … se considérait lors de cette coalition à tort ou à raison comme parti présidentiel. Menaçant parfois la fin de la coalition, « Si le partenaire en coalition ne veut plus de celle-ci, en ce qui nous concerne, nous allons tirer les conséquences constitutionnelles qui s’imposent, c’est-à-dire aller tout droit et sans hésitation à la cohabitation », a déclaré un jour le secrétaire permanant du PPRD Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary. Mercredi 8 juillet 2020 un effrontément violent a eu lieu à Lubumbashi entre les militants de l’UDPS et du PPRD. Ces deux partis politiques en coalition, au regard des comportements qui les caractérisent, dus aux conditions dans lesquelles ils sont nés et ont évolué, sont plus des tigres que des agneaux.
Author Keywords: Partis politiques, Coalition, UDPS, PPRD, Parti radical, Parti conservateur.
How to Cite this Article
Pungu Mukumbi Denis, Shabani Moricho Dauda, Mwamba Wa Mwamba Cléophas, and Djessy Nyasingini Clémentine, “Birth of political parties and behavior of militants: A look at the UDPS and the PPRD,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 70–80, August 2022.
