Claim: At the 2019 Democratic Republic of the Congo Senate election, the Senate was made up of a total of 200 seats, with the majority of 99 seats taken by the Lamuka Coalition party.
Evidence: Former DRC President Joseph Kabila, who stepped down from office in January 2019 following the inauguration of the recently elected Félix Tshisekedi, has also joined the upper house of the legislature as a senator for life, for a total of 109 seats.