Today's local press mainly focuses on the Supreme Court Decision issued last weekend.

Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Justice issued a decision that "MPs and Senators who are no longer member of the component that delegated them should be withdrawn the right to sit as MPs or Senators," explains Le Potentiel. As a result, "Mr. Olivier Kamitatu, Speaker of the National Assembly and the other members [stricken off MLC list] should "lose their positions in the parliament," reports the paper. "The name of Kamitatu's successor has been circulating since last weekend. It is Thomas Luhaka who leads the MPs of MLC movement in the parliament," further reports Le Potentiel.

Will Olivier Kamitatu and the hundreds other MPs "just sit back and let things pass them by"? wonders Le Potentiel. "No," reply the paper. "Only the Senate or the National Assembly have the power to invalidate MPs and Senators' mandates," highlights La Référence Plus. To implement such a decision, "the political, administrative and legal commissions of the National Assembly and the Senate must sit and adopt an ad hoc report. The invalidation must be approved by the Senate and the National Assembly," explains La Référence Plus. "The Constitution and the All-inclusive Agreement are clear on this issue: Heads of the transition institutions will remain in place until the transition is over," says L'Observateur.

"Hard legal battle on the horizon; MPs and Senators will not accept to serve as expiatory victims for political schemes," warns La Référence Plus. We are obviously in for "Transition's crisis that will affect the electoral calendar," worriedly says L'Observateur. The "the legal battle risks taking long and further ruin the country at a time when the free and transparent elections are getting nearer," argues La Référence Plus.

Besides the legal battle "looming on the horizon," the electoral law "to be promulgated by President Kabila today Monday 27 February 2006 to make the 1st tour of the presidential elections possible for 18 June; unfortunately, the electoral law has not been transmitted yet to the Head of State," highlights La Tempête des Tropiques. Such delay will certainly "impact negatively on the electoral calendar," says La Tempête des Tropiques.

The headline in Le Phare says CIAT is greatly concerned about the above issue. The International Committee to Accompany the Transition has therefore "called on the Parliament to transmit the electoral law to the President within the shortest possible for him to promulgate it without delay so that the elections would be held by 30 June 2006," reports Le Phare. Ciat issued warning against "all those who are intentionally using delaying tactics to prolong the transition unnecessarily," writes Le Palmarès.

The King of Morocco, Mohamed VI is expected in Kinshasa this evening. "The aim of his visit is to revitalize the longstanding bilateral relations between DRC and Morocco," reports L'Avenir.