{"id":7112,"date":"2021-03-22T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:49:07","slug":"congos-opposition-candidate-kolelas-dies-a-day-after-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/22\/congos-opposition-candidate-kolelas-dies-a-day-after-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo\u2019s opposition candidate Kolelas dies a day after elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"root\">\n<div class=\"container container--grid container--article container--white container--vertical-padding\">\n<div class=\"container__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-col l-col--8\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\">\n<p>Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, leading opposition presidential candidate in Republic of Congo\u2019s election, died on Sunday, a day after the country went to the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Kolelas was hospitalised on the eve of the elections and died of COVID-19 as he was being taken to France for treatment, his campaign director Christian Cyr Rodrigue Mayanda told AFP news agency on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kolelas \u201cdied in the medical aircraft which came to get him from Brazzaville on Sunday afternoon\u201d, added Mayanda.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7114\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Congo-opposition-candidate-Kolelas-dies-a-day-after-elections-rapidnews.jpg\" alt=\"Congo-opposition-candidate-Kolelas-dies-a-day-after-elections-rapidnews\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Congo-opposition-candidate-Kolelas-dies-a-day-after-elections-rapidnews.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Congo-opposition-candidate-Kolelas-dies-a-day-after-elections-rapidnews-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Congo-opposition-candidate-Kolelas-dies-a-day-after-elections-rapidnews-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a family member told the Associated Press that Kolelas was receiving treatment at a private hospital in the capital Brazzaville after contracting the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Kolelas skipped his final campaign event on Friday after telling some reporters a day earlier that he feared he had malaria.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulating on social media dated Friday showed Kolelas, 61, wearing an oxygen mask and with a blood pressure cuff on his arm as he lay in a hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"1\">\u201cMy dear compatriots, I am in trouble. I am fighting death,\u201d the candidate said in a weak voice after removing his oxygen mask. \u201cHowever, I ask you to stand up and vote for change. I would not have fought for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kolelas finished runner-up to leader Denis Sassou Nguesso in the 2016 presidential election with about 15 percent of the vote. His father, Bernard Kolelas, was briefly Congo\u2019s prime minister in 1997 during the country\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition figure has been particularly critical of the incumbent leader in recent days, declaring that the Republic of Congo had become \u201ca police state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kolelas was seen as the main rival to Nguesso, who has lead the central African country for a total of 36 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mayanda called on Kolelas\u2019 supporters to rally at 1100 am local time (1000 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to count the ballots. He was ahead in a number of areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"2\">Provisional election results are not expected for days, but Sassou Nguesso is widely expected to win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, leading opposition presidential candidate in Republic of Congo\u2019s election, died on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congo\u2019s opposition candidate Kolelas dies a day after elections<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Guy Brice 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