A vote to supercede President Joseph Kabila volition in all likelihood non hold upwards possible this year, president of Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral committee said inward a deed that volition violate a bargain that allow Kabila remain on past times the destination of his mandate.
Kabila's refusal to pace downwards at the destination of his minute elected term inward Dec terminal yr sparked protests that killed dozens of people.
"The parameters at our disposal hand us, to a greater extent than or less, argue to intend that, inward December, it volition in all likelihood non hold upwards possible to stick to that date," commission president Corneille Nangaa said inward an interview on France's TV5Monde, referring to the year-end deadline. 
Under the accord struck on Dec 31 betwixt Kabila's representatives as well as opposition leaders, Kabila, inward ability since 2001, is likewise barred from trying to alter the constitution to stand upwards for a tertiary term.
However, Kabila has said simply the electoral committee tin schedule the vote 1 time it finishes enrolling millions of voters.
In an interview terminal calendar month amongst High German paper Der Spiegel, he likewise said that he had "promised nothing" inward the Dec deal.
The opposition apace denounced Nangaa's annunciation on sun every bit a statement of "war"
Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi wrote on Twitter that the committee president "had declared state of war on the Congolese people" as well as promised a amount reply past times the country's primary opposition bloc on Monday.
Twenty-three years of armed conflict as well as inter-communal violence has taken a cost on this mineral-rich nation. People induce got been displaced past times clashes, sometimes betwixt the armed services as well as armed groups or betwixt the rebels themselves.
DRC has close 3.7 1000000 internally displaced people. More than 992,000 were displaced terminal yr alone, according to a study past times the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. This is the highest publish inward the Blue Planet of internally displaced people registered inward 2016.
An additional 1.3 1000000 Congolese induce got fled the most recent violence inward Kasai Province at the edge with Angola.