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The 1960 Loi Fondamentale: Belgium's Legal Blueprint for Congo's Chaos
In this episode, we look at the Loi Fondamentale of 1960, the hastily drafted Belgian law that was supposed to guide the Democratic Republic of the Congo through its first years of independence. We trace how this document, written in just weeks by a handful of Belgian legal experts, tried to reconcile the federalist demands of Moïse Tshombe's Conakat and the centralist vision of Patrice Lumumba's MNC. The law's contradictions—a parliamentary system with a president, a prime minister answerable to both, and a confusing division of powers—set the stage for the political paralysis…
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