This paper deals with observer-based stabilization for a class of Linear ParameterVarying (LPV) systems in discrete-time case. Two new LMI design methods are proposed to design the observer-based controller gains. The first one is based on the use of a Young's relation in a judicious way, while the second one, which provides more interesting results, is based on the use of a general congruence principle. This use of congruence principle leads to some additional slack matrices as decision variables, which make disappear some bilinear terms leading to less conservative LMI conditions. To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first time the congruence principle is exploited in this way. The effectiveness and superiority of the proposed design techniques, compared to existing results in the literature, are demonstrated through two numerical examples.