CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE): TSHOMBE VOTE TOPPLES KIMBA GOVERNMENT -- BUT KIMBA STAYS IN POWER
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328512
CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE): TSHOMBE VOTE TOPPLES KIMBA GOVERNMENT -- BUT KIMBA STAYS IN POWER
- Title: CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE): TSHOMBE VOTE TOPPLES KIMBA GOVERNMENT -- BUT KIMBA STAYS IN POWER
- Date: 16th November 1965
- Summary: 1. GV INT. DEPUTIES WITH TSHOMBE IN F/G 0.04 2. MV DEPUTIES WITH KIMBA 0.07 3. MV EMPTY CHAIR (FOR KASAVUBU) 0.11 4. CU PARLIAMENT PRESIDENTS 0.15 5. SCU KIMBA AND OTHER DEPUTIES 0.19 6. SV PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES RESULT OF VOTING 0.21 7. SV DEPUTIES BANG TABLE 0.25 8. CU DEPUTY BANGS TABLE 0.28 9. CU FOUR DEPUTIES 0.29 10. MV TSHOMBE ELATED, WITH DEPUTIES APPLAUDING 0.36 11. CU TSHOMBE CONGRATULATED 0.40 12. MV KIMBA TALKS TO GROUP OF DEPUTIES 0.43 13. SCU KIMBA TALKING 0.47 14. GV EXT.. TSHOMBE IN OPEN CAR IN MOTORCADE 0.59 15. SV CHILDREN CHEER 1.02 16. MV PAN.. TSHOMBE AND MOTORCADE 1.07 17. GV CHEERING CHILDREN 1.10 18. SV PAN.. TSHOMBE ACKNOWLEDGES FROM CAR 1.18 Initials JT/VS/JF/SA Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 1st December 1965 12:00
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- Location: LEOPOLDVILLE, CONGO
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- Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Reuters ID: LVA1N3XNKCUF0X1KQ08VA27Y156N
- Story Text: THE NEW CONGOLESE (LEOPOLDVILLE) GOVERNMENT OF M. EVARISTE KIMBA WAS TOPPLED ON SUNDAY. THE MAN WHO BROUGHT HIM DOWN WAS M. MOISE TSHOMBE, THE OUSTED PRIME MINISTER WHOM M. KIMBA SUCCEEDED LAST MONTH. M. TSHOMBE LED THE OPPOSITION IN VOTING AGAINST A CONFIDENCE MOTION IN THE NEW REGIME.
DESPITE THE VOTE, PRESIDENT KASAVUBU, WHO DISMISSED M. TSHOMBE LAST MONTH, ASKED M. KIMBA TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT. THE PRIME MINISTER, WHO WAS ONCE THE KATANGESE FOREIGN MINISTER UNDER M. TSHOMBE, SAID HE HAD AGREED TO THE REQUEST.
THE VOTING WAS 134 TO 121, WITH SEVEN ABSTENTIONS. BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT WERE MEETING AT THE TIME, SITTING AS A JOINT NATIONAL CONGRESS.
M. TSHOMBE SAID AFTERWARDS THAT "THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE CONGO'S PROBLEMS IS TO RESPECT PARLIAMENT AND THE VOICE OF THE MAJORITY." BUT A LEADER OF A PARTY WHICH SUPPORTED THE GOVERNMENT SAID: "WE CANNOT HAVE M. TSHOMBE IN POWER. HE IS A COLONIALIST, A FRIEND OF IAN SMITH AND THE RHODESIANS."
M. TSHOMBE NOW EMERGES AS A FORMIDABLE FIGURE IN CONGOLESE POLITICS AND A SERIOUS CONTENDER FOR THE PRESIDENT IN THE ELECTION EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR.
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