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Voting for Change in the DRC
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 18, Number 2, April 2007
- pp. 138-151
- 10.1353/jod.2007.0037
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On 30 July and 20 October 2006, less than a year after a December 2005 constitutional referendum, the vast and strife-wracked Democratic Republic of the Congo held its first multiparty elections since 1965.The holding of competitive elections must count as a significant achievement even though voters signaled their disaffection with the entire array of political elites that had been ruling them.