VOTE AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL BILL, CATHOLICS URGE MPS

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VOTE AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL BILL, CATHOLICS URGE MPS

Caritas Zambia director Father Gabriel Mapulanga has urged members of parliament who have raised concern with some of the provisions in the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill to vote against it when it goes to Parliament.



And the Zambian Civil Liberties Union (ZCLU) says the regressive provisions in Bill 7 of 2025, appear designed to entrench incumbency, weaken opposition parties, and enable members of parliament to retain power while accessing public resources like Constituency Development Funds (CDF) during campaign periods.



Caritas Zambia is a Catholic organisation that is an integral structure of the Zambia Conference of Catholics Bishops (ZCCB) and a social wing of the Catholic Church in Zambia.



In an interview with Daily Revelation yesterday, Fr. Mapulanga said Caritas did the analysis of the Constitutional Amendment and presented it to the Bishops who are

https://dailyrevelationzambia.com/21542-2/

5 COMMENTS

  1. Ba Katolika nabo!
    Anyway freedom of speech.
    Checks and Balances. Let’s wait and see how the scale is finally going to balance.
    Water always finally finds its own level.

    • Catholic bishops speak through their pastoral letter. Anything less than a pastoral letter is not the voice of the bishops.

  2. The entire country, except one region, is in full support of this message by the Catholic Church to reject this constitutional change.

    Reject tribalism, corruption and oppression.

    God bless Captain Ibrahim Traore.

    VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.

  3. Am sure ba kateka is regretting for removing the ministry of religious affairs which could have been monitoring such churches.the church must not be making political statements,this is clearly against government intentions and consequently the upnd.ba catholic please lekeni pf,upnd,mmd,unip are one Zambia,don’t divide us.

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