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The Social Movement for Renewal (french: Mouvement Social pour le Renouveau) is a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in the
Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
. The party won 27 out of 500 seats in the
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. In the 19 January 2007
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, the party won 3 out of 108 seats. The current party president, Pierre Lumbi, is also the vice president of ''Ensemble pour le Changement'', the political coalition supporting
Moïse Katumbi Moïse Katumbi Chapwe (; born 28 December 1964) is a Congolese businessman and politician. He was Governor of Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2007 to September 2015. He was a member of t ...
for the 2018 presidential election.


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