The main headlines in today's Kinshasa newspapers are related to the following two bits of news:
- Tasked with identifying the majority parties in the National Assembly, Antoine Gizenga on Wednesday submitted to the head of state his report on his consultations conducted for that purpose.
-The National Assembly is due to elect today members of its definitive Bureau.

In an article headlined "The Way Now Paved for Kabila to Nominate the Prime Minister," Le Potentiel notes that "Antoine Gizenga has submitted his report to [Joseph Kabila] and [that] it is now up to the head of state to evaluate the report and eventually nominate the Prime Minister if this report meets his expectations."

Le Palmarès writes: "Antoine Gizenga submitted his report before the 30-day deadline [set for this]. And after working relentlessly, [Gizenga] identified 332 members of the National Assembly who are willing to support the government's action."

L'Observateur notes that Gizenga's mission having ended with the submission of his report, "the way is paved for the nomination of the Prime Minister and [that this] nomination is now imminent."

Assuming his is the one chosen to head the new government, Antoine Gizenga will need some time to reflect, notes La Tempête des Tropiques, saying "the octogenarian leader of the PALU party must evaluate his chances of success before committing himself". According to this paper, "not only will he [Gizenga] need to make sure he has [President Kabila's] full confidence but will also have to overcome the animosity actively cultivated against him in the circles of AMP [Presidential Majority Alliance, the coalition that supported Kabila in his successful bid for President] which has significant moral and psychological ascendancy over the head of state."

With the definitive National Assembly Bureau membership due to be elected today, L'Avenir notes that "Vital Kamerhe is set to win" the Presidency of the Assembly Bureau, saying "the secretary-general of PPRD [pro-Joseph Kabila party] will successfully head the list of the AMP-PALU-UDEMO coalition to victory".

Concurring with this view, La Référence Plus writes: "Barring a reversal of trend situation, the Bureau of the National Assembly will controlled by one single group". This paper explains that as revealed by the list of AMP candidates approved by Joseph Kabila and his electoral allies Antoine Gizenga and Zanga Mobutu during at a meeting held yesterday at the Grand Hotel Kinshasa, "AMP and allied parties made no concession to the opposition as they fielded candidates for all seven seats" in the definitive Bureau of the Assembly.

In mentioning Gilbert Tshongo's own bid for President of the Assembly Bureau, Le Phare notes that supporters of this other member of AMP are insisting on the "need for ensuring adequate geographic representation within the country's main institutions".
Quoting them further, this paper writes: "The east and west are already represented respectively by Joseph Kabila as President and Gizenga as [likely] Prime Minister. So if the country is to be spared from a social divide, a prospect mush dreaded in the wake of the final round of the presidential vote, then logically the Presidency of the National Assembly Bureau should go to a candidate from the centre." This is in reference to Tshongo, a native of Western Kasai province, in central DRC.

"[Today's] election of the definitive Bureau [of the National Assembly] is illegal because 200 applications for candidacy are still pending before the Supreme Court," Le Phare also says, quoting Augustin Kikukama, secretary-general of the Mouvement du 17 mai (Movement of 17 May, a party claiming the legacy of Joseph Kabila's father, Laurent.)