# CENI declares Tshisekedi winner with 73.34 percent; Carter Center records tabulation shortfalls Date: 2023 ## The fact On 31 December 2023 CENI president Denis Kadima declared [Félix Tshisekedi](/people/felix-tshisekedi) provisionally elected after the 20 December poll with 13,215,366 votes (73.34 percent). The Constitutional Court confirmed 73.47 percent on 9 January 2024. The Carter Center’s final report recorded that tabulation ran from electronic voting devices at CENI headquarters rather than from polling-station results at constituency level as the legal framework specified, and that the process fell short of some key international commitments. This page does not invent a unique fraud integer. ## Context He ran. CENI tabulated. The Court confirmed. Moïse Katumbi was recorded near 18 percent and rejected the return. [Martin Fayulu](/people/martin-fayulu) called for a rerun. Both are unresolved. Turnout was recorded above 43 percent of more than 18 million valid votes. 20 December poll; 31 December CENI declaration; 9 January 2024 Court confirmation. Stored as one 31 December 2023 Fact. Keep CENI declares Tshisekedi winner with 73.34 percent; Carter Center records tabulation shortfalls on 2023-12-31 separate from neighbouring siege, CENI, Court, Goma, and 2773 instruments. The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is head of state and commander-in-chief of the FARDC. He can proclaim a state of siege, run a CENI return, and command a defence of Goma. He does not write a Security Council resolution, a Carter Center tabulation finding, or a unique eastern-DRC civilian death total invented here. ## Evidence and sources Agence Congolaise de Presse carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is electoral integrity: a completed 73.34 percent certification whose tabulation an accredited observer said fell short of the legal framework. ## What is established and what is not Established: CENI declared 13,215,366 votes (73.34 percent) on 31 December 2023. The Court later confirmed 73.47 percent. The Carter Center recorded tabulation short of constituency-level legal procedure. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. CENI tabulated. The Court wrote. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the certification.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies CENI declares Tshisekedi winner with 73.34 percent; Carter Center records tabulation shortfalls, not a later speech about CENI declares Tshisekedi winner with 73.34 percent; Carter Center records tabulation shortfalls. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. CENI declares Tshisekedi winner with 73.34 percent; Carter Center records tabulation shortfalls on 2023-12-31 is not a licence to treat every later Agence Congolaise de Presse communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average CENI declares Tshisekedi winner with 73.34 percent; Carter Center records tabulation shortfalls into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was certified. CENI tabulated. The Court wrote. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the certification. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Félix Tshisekedi: https://factrail.ai/people/felix-tshisekedi ## Drivers - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-release-provisional-results-disputed-presidential-vote-2023-12-31/ - https://acp.cd/nation/presidentielle-2023-felix-tshisekedi-proclame-vainqueur-avec-7334/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cd-election-2023