Former legislator Anadi Sululu begs Pope Leo XIV to stop the term extension

A former legislator just escalated Zimbabwe's constitutional crisis all the way to the Vatican, asking Pope Leo XIV to personally intervene.

Sululu's letter to the Pope

• Former MDC legislator Anadi Sululu wrote to Pope Leo XIV.
• His February 27 letter went through Zimbabwe's Apostolic Nunciature.
• Sululu leads a pressure group called E-Movement.
• He requested a brief papal audience on the crisis.

What the constitutional fight is about

• Amendment No. 3 Bill seeks to extend presidential terms to 2030.
• Sululu argues it defies the 2013 national referendum's democratic will.
• Parliament gazetted the Bill last month ahead of presidential assent.
• National resources should help the poor, not political elites, per Sululu.

Other channels Sululu tapped

• Reverend Janusz Urbanczyk got asked to relay the petition.
• ZCBC president Paul Horan received a solidarity request.
• African Union chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf got a letter too.
• Neither the Pope nor his Zimbabwe representative has responded.

Broader church opposition to the Bill

• Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations condemned the amendments.
• Church leaders called for prayerful, non-violent resistance.
• Amendments clash with the 2013 Constitution's foundational values.