Alluding to the 29th October presidential run-off, La Référence Plus says, "The High Media Authority HAM has denounced the public television and radio broadcast RTNC's partiality in broadcasting news about the election campaign." In this respect, the paper echoes the head of the HAM's "disagreement with the management of the public television said to have charged candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba the huge sum of US$ 5000 dollars to disseminate his message." "Those are unacceptable and illegal practices," highlights La Référence Plus, echoing Moïse Mutinga, head of the Ham. The paper further informs, "A warning has been issued against Radio Liberté owned by Jean-Pierre Bemba, banned to broadcast political programs that allow listeners to make hatred-inciting- statements and to raise the nationality issue."

L'Avenir reports, "La HAM may cancel Kabila-Bemba public debate for security reasons," indicating, "MLC members have decided to turn out massively at RTNC on 26 October to witness the public debate." The HAM fears "incidents that would disrupt public order, with the police force being under obligation to intervene."

" ...Due to security reasons, President Kabila and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba are not taking the risk of going out for election campaigning, knowing fully well that one contestant is automatically declared President when anything bad happens to the other," says Le Palmarès.

"Whoever is elected President, DRC's trusteeship will be extended," says Le Phare. Referring to the "four proposals issued by specialists in the Congolese issues, notably that a post electoral broad-based government should be put in place," says the paper, wondering, "what is the point in funding the elections when the end-objective would be to put in place a broad-base government to include various political and social forces whose effect will be to paralyse government's action and to get it entangled with endless discussions"?