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Bemba is one of 32 presidential candidates, who also include Kabila.
Sunday's polls are aimed at ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity for the Congo following a 1998-2003 war that killed an estimated 4 million people through conflict, hunger and disease.
The world's biggest international peacekeeping force, around 17,000 United Nations and 2,000 European Union troops, is overseeing the elections.
PEACE DEAL
At a rally attended by 40,000 cheering supporters, Bemba predicted he would win Sunday's vote.
"The liberation of Congo will be complete on Sunday … This is the hour of truth," he said in a speech.
Earlier, U.N. officials had welcomed a peace deal signed by militia chief Mathieu Ngudjolo in northeast Ituri district late on Wednesday in which he agreed to lay down his arms and allow voting on Sunday.
"The two parties have agreed on the integration of the MRC (Congolese Revolutionary Movement) fighters and a general amnesty for all members of the movement," said a statement issued after Wednesday's talks and seen by Reuters.
Ngudjolo, who heads a loose coalition of militia fighters in Ituri called the MRC, is one of the last rebels holding out in the region, where ethnic violence and clashes between militia groups fighting over mines killed tens of thousands of civilians.
Some Congo experts expressed skepticism about the deal with Ngudjolo, which follows another struck this month with Peter Karim, an Ituri warlord who kidnapped seven U.N. peacekeepers.
Karim had vowed to disarm in return for becoming an army colonel but, so far has failed to disband his fighters.
(Additional reporting by Daniel Flynn)
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