DRC: President Tshisekedi swears in the members of the Economic and Social Council

Kinshasa, April 2^nd, 2025 (CPA) – On Tuesday, President Félix Tshisekedi invested the members of the Economic and Social Council (CES) of the Democratic Republic of Congo, under the terms of an order read out on Congolese national radio and television (RTNC). ‘The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, today, Tuesday 1 April 2025, signed an order appointing the members of the Economic and Social Council of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’, read a journalist from the national broadcaster. Among the nominees was the outgoing president of the Economic and Social Council, Jean-Pierre Kiwakana, of the 68 ESC members invested by the presidential decree. The Economic and Social Council is a consultative body with legal personality. Its remit is to issue advisory opinions on economic and social issues submitted to it by the President of the Republic, the National Assembly, the Senate and the Government. It may, on its own initiative, draw the attention of the Government and the provinces to reforms likely to promote the country’s economic and social development.ACP/