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 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Second place might be good enough for the former rebel trailing President Joseph Kabila in Congo's historic election — at least this time around.
Election results were trickling in from the July 30 balloting, but too slowly to point to a winner. And with 33 candidates, it will be difficult for any candidate to win the majority needed to avoid a runoff between the top two vote-getters, likely in October.
The results so far show Kabila doing well in the east, where he was born. His main rival, vice president and former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba was expected to do well in the capital, Kinshasa, and elsewhere in the west, where he is embraced as a regional son.
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