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Senate elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 19 January 2007, though they had originally been scheduled for 16 January. [1] The members of the Senate were chosen through indirect election by the members of the provincial assemblies; the delay was a result of the difficulties in choosing traditional chiefs to fill the places reserved for them in the provincial assemblies. [2]
Bemba, who had placed second in the 2006 presidential election, won a Senate seat from the capital, Kinshasa. [3]