Analysing this information, LA TEMPETE DES TROPIQUES echoes widespread concerns among overseas-based Congolese that "there is a risk the eastern part of the DRC may not participate in the coming elections."

In a front-page piece devoted to the electoral process and titled 1,500 European soldiers will be deployed in the DRC during the elections, LE PALMARES notes that "Germany has finally agreed to send troops, but the [German] Chancellor would like the mission to include Belgian, French and British soldiers as well". "Reportedly Germany will not have a major role to play in the [European] mission for the DR Congo," according to LE POTENTIEL.

Referring to the draft electoral law currently under consideration in Parliament, LE PHARE titles "The ICST [International Committee in Support of the Transition] presses for closed and zebra lists." According to LE PHARE, "the members of the ISCT, in not very diplomatic terms, indicated their insistence that the parliament should adopt this [electoral] system which they deem to be the only one conducive to stability in a country emerging from a long armed conflict." In another story on the same subject, LE PHARE reveals that "members of Parliament are determined to oppose the ICST's diktat with all means possible." Therefore, LE PHARE adds, "the members of the joint political, administrative and legal commission have definitively opted for open lists and have decided on minimum education required for candidates for President of the Republic and for Parliament."

As elections draw near, UDPS [Union for Democracy and Social Progress] grows impatient titles LE POTENTIEL, about the party of Etienne Tshisekedi, who decided to join the electoral process after having boycotted it. LE POTENTIEL wonders what is next after the refusal of the UDPS' request for a reopening of voter registration centres. Echoing recent remarks by Aldo Ajello, the European Special Envoy to Africa's Great Lakes region, LE POTENTIEL hopes, however, that there will be "a compromise". Meanwhile, the party contemplates "organis[ing] demonstrations in Kinshasa and Brussels."