DRC’s ruling party PPRD has named Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary as President Joseph Kabila’s successor and candidate for the December 23 elections.
The 58-year-old former governor of the eastern province of Maniema served as interior minister from late 2016 until this February, when he was named permanent secretary of Kabila’s PPRD party.
In May 2017 the EU imposed sanctions on Shadary and froze his assets for the repeated attacks on DRC civilians that led to the death of hundreds during his time as interior minister.
Kabila, whose second term officially ended in 2016, is constitutionally ineligible for December’s poll, although his rivals accuse him of wanting to stay in power.
Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary a short biography
- Born on 29 November 1960 in Kasongo, eastern DRC
- BA in Political Science from the University of Lubumbashi
- Assistant at the Higher Institute for Rural Development in Kindu (1992 – 19994)
- Interior Minister (2016 – 2018)
- Deputy Governor in the Maniema Province (1997 – 1998)
- Appointed Governor of the Maniema Province in 1998 by President Laurent Kabila and re-appointed by President Joseph Kabila in 2001
- President of the Political, administrative, and legal committee in the National Assembly (2006 – 2011)
- Founder member of the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) in 2002
- President of the PPRD parliamentary group since 2012
- National Secretary for Elections in PPRD (2005 – 2015)
- Appointed as Permanent Secretary of the PPRD in 2018
- Nicknamed “Make it happen”
