Olivier Kamitatu Etsu

After founding  in 2006, the Alliance for the Renewal of Congo (ARC), in 2020, he became a founder of the party 'Together for the Republic’ (Ensemble pour la République) of Moïse Katumbi of which he is the spokesperson.

Olivier Kamitatu is the son of Marie-Josée Mafuta Mingi, former Deputy Minister of Education and people's commissioner of Bulungu, and Cléophas Kamitatu Massamba, one of the fathers of Independence, the first Governor of Kinshasa, former Minister of Planning, Interior, and Foreign Affairs from 1960 to 1965, and later of Budget, Finance, Environment, and Agriculture during the 1980s and 1990s, and provincial deputy for the territory of Masi-Manimba in the Bandundu province.

In 1986, he graduated from the Catholic Institute of Higher Commercial Studies (ICHEC) in Brussels, majoring in economic problems of developing countries.

In May 1999, he joined the Congolese Liberation Movement (Mouvement de Libération du Congo), the rebellion led by Jean-Pierre Bemba, where he served as Secretary General from 1999 to 2003.

From 1999 to 2003, he participated in all peace negotiations in Geneva, New York, Addis Ababa, and Lusaka, which led to the signing of the Global and Inclusive Agreement in Pretoria.

Under his presidency, the National Assembly drafted the Constitution of the Third Republic, which was promulgated in February 2006 following its adoption by a significant majority of the Congolese population during the referendum held in December 2005.

On September 14, 2015, he was dismissed from the government following his joining the G7,[5] a platform of seven political parties opposed to the constitutional change advocated by the presidential majority (MP) of President Joseph Kabila.