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"Mr President, given that the text of this resolution is rooted in the presidential and legislative elections of 2011, the draft resolution should have been submitted to plenary the day after the election.
However, despite this delay, the abuses observed in the running of institutions and in the electoral process are of continuing relevance and require a response on our part to prevent a similar situation from happening again.
The first test of credibility, in the short-term, will be the provincial, urban, municipal and local elections, to be held between now and 2014. This agenda for these elections was defined and confirmed on 6 June 2012.
The European Parliament calls on the European Union to link the funding of future electoral processes with the effective implementation of recommendations as defined by the EU election observation missions. We need to stand even firmer in this demand given that the 2011 elections took place in a much less satisfactory way than the previous elections, to say the very least.
This is unfortunate in many respects and especially given that Congolese citizens are truly willing to become more involved in the democratisation of their country. The country is regressing while its citizens want to take part in its recovery.
If things remain as they are, Congo, despite making a promising start in the context of transition, would lag behind considerably when it needs to be injecting a new impetus. Many African countries have already shown that democratisation can work. Therefore, the situation in Congo is not an African inevitability, but rather a refusal or an inability to make the most of the assets that this country has."@en1
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