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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's legislature adopted a constitution that reduces the required age for presidential candidates, a change that would allow President Joseph Kabila to stand in the country's next elections, officials said Saturday.
The new constitution reduces the age requirement for presidential candidates from 35 years to 30 years. The change would allow the 33-year-old Kabila to run for office whenever the vote is held. Kabila became president after his father, former President Laurent Kabila, was assassinated in January 2001 by one of his own bodyguards.
Joseph Kabila pushed ahead with peace efforts that eventually lead to the withdrawal of foreign armies and an end to Congo's ruinous five-year civil war.
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