Under the new multiparty system, Mobutu said that he would be above political parties, and accordingly he resigned as the head of the MPR on the same date, although he again accepted the post of party president a year later, on 21 April 1991.
根據新的多黨制，蒙博托表示他將超越政黨，因此他在同一天辭去了人民革命運動的主席一職，不過他在一年後於1991年4月21日再次重任黨主席一職。