Congo’s bishops: Thwart bid for new term for nation’s president
December 02, 2015
The bishops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have called upon the nation’s Catholics to oppose a potential bid for an unconstitutional third term for President Joseph Kabila.
“We ask the Congolese people to prove their vigilance in the spirit of article 64 (of the constitution),” the bishops said in a November 26 statement, according to a report from the Catholic Information Service for Africa.
The article “stipulates that ‘all Congolese have the duty to thwart any individual or group of individuals that takes power by force or exercises it in violation of the provisions of the present constitution,’” the bishops added.
53% of the nation’s 81.7 million people are Catholic.
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Further information:
- DRC: Catholic Bishops Urge Citizens to Thwart Kabila’s Third Term Bid (CISA)
- Congo’s bishops warn against unconstitutional 3rd term for president (CWN, 11/19)
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