Dr. Oscar Lukumuena Kashala is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was a candidate in the 2006 presidential election. Doctor Kashala is a graduate of Harvard University and was a senior executive at a pharmeceutical company headquartered in Massachusetts. He resigned this post in order to campaign in the 2006 elections, after years of residence in the United States.
In May 2006, thirty members of Kashala's security detail were accused of plotting to overthrow interim Congo president Joseph Kabila. Kashala and the international community dismissed the allegations as a blatant attempt by Kabila's administration to intimidate him. [1]
In the 2006 election, Kashala finished in fifth place with 4% of votes in the first round of voting, well short of Jean-Pierre Bemba's 20% and Joseph Kabila's 45%. [2]
