Le Blog du Congolais summarizes the post-election landscape as follows (Fr): “The general trend is to wait and see. People are giving the President the benefit of the doubt . He is far from making people secure so persistent is the question mark on his competence, his good faith, his origins and the circumstances that led to his intruding on the political scene… People dream of the millions with which the West will flood the country to support right hand men which they succeeded in putting in place through predetermined elections.”