The Action of Patriots for the Emergence of Congo (APEC) made a strong impression in Lubumbashi. Gathered at a packed Gécamines stadium, the political formation led by Louis Watum Kabamba and represented by interim president Dominique Unyon Pewu recorded massive new memberships while taking a firm stance on the country’s pressing political debate: constitutional revision, which it considers essential to address security and governance challenges.
The political morning unfolded in an electric atmosphere, with the national anthem playing and a sea of supporters wearing party colors. For APEC leaders, the strong turnout confirms the party’s deep roots in the copper capital and popular endorsement of their moral authority Louis Watum Kabamba’s vision.
A high-level delegation from Kinshasa led the political and civic gathering, headed by the party’s national interim president, the honorable Dominique Unyon Pewu.
Beyond the festive nature of the membership drive, party officials used this platform in the country’s second-largest city to conduct a rigorous assessment of the current institutional framework. According to APEC, the political, economic, and especially security realities of the DRC demand that taboos be lifted.
Speakers argued that no fundamental text can remain unchanged in the face of societal transformations. Considering constitutional reform is not a challenge to democracy, but a normal exercise in a nation’s life.
Addressing the crowd, interim APEC president Dominique Unyon Pewu firmly positioned his party – a member of Félix Tshisekedi’s Union Sacrée – within the momentum for constitutional change, invoking national sovereignty:
“You know the burning issue in the Democratic Republic of Congo today: changing the Constitution. Can we talk about constitutional change in the DRC without APEC? We rely on Article 5 of the Constitution, which gives the Congolese people sovereignty to express themselves and decide on constitutional change. If the people agree, who can stop us? That is why APEC, behind its moral authority His Excellency Louis Watum Kabamba, rises and supports the constitutional change project,” he declared.
By successfully mobilizing a full stadium, Louis Watum Kabamba’s party not only demonstrated its electoral strength in Greater Katanga. It also established itself as a key player in the national intellectual and political debate, affirming its commitment to modernizing the state and building more effective institutions that meet the aspirations of the Congolese people.
