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 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Electoral officials slowly counting votes from Congo's landmark presidential election said Sunday that support for incumbent Joseph Kabila has slipped to just above 50 percent, increasing the likelihood of a runoff.
Less than a quarter of the ballots cast from the July 30 vote have been counted. Unless one of the 33 candidates wins the majority, the two top vote-getters will face each other in a second round of voting.
With 4.7 million of some 20 million votes counted, Kabila has received 51 percent of the vote, compared with 19 percent for Jean-Pierre Bemba, an ex-rebel leader and vice president in the Central African country's postwar national-unity government.
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