CENI on Tuesday said it would begin releasing the results either on Wednesday or Thursday, but tension remains high.
There has also been an increase in police deployment across the capital Kinshasa amid fears a dispute over the results might spark violence.
The December 30 vote was meant to elect a new president for the DR Congo, and if everything goes as planned, the country will witness its first peaceful transition of power since its independence in 1960.
Ahead of those results, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met with his Zambian counterpart Edgar Lungu and urger CENI to release the result promptly to avoid any suspicions that would “compromise peace and stability of the country.”
With President Joseph Kabila barred by the Constitution from running for a third term, opposition politicians Felix Tshisekedi and Martin Fayulu ran against the ruling party’s Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary.
