Election
Under the 2006 constitution, the President is directly elected to a five-year term - renewable only once - by universal suffrage. The first President to have been elected under these provisions is Joseph Kabila, in the 2006 elections.
In the DRC, the president is elected by a Two-round system of voting, which ensures the elected President always obtains a majority of the vote. If none of the candidates manage to receive the majority of the votes then the top two candidates in the election arrive at a run off. This allows smaller parties to have a greater impact on the outcome of elections, thus guaranteeing a multi-party system, as opposed to a two-party system.
After the president is elected, he goes through a solemn investiture ceremony.
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