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Eneas Comiche. File photo: Mozefo
The Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) today elected the former mayor of the city of Maputo Eneas Comiche as its candidate for the October municipal elections, the ruling party in Mozambique announced today.
Eneas Comiche won with 70 votes against 17 for Fernando Sumbana, former minister of Tourism, and 11 for Razak Manhique, current deputy president of the Municipal Assembly of the city of Maputo, in an internal party scrutiny in Maputo city.
Eneas Comiche, 79, was mayor of Maputo between 2003 and 2008. He is an economist and previously held the position of governor of the Banco de Moçambique and he also served as Minister of Finance.
On the same day, Frelimo also decided to re-elect Calisto Cossa, current mayor of Matola, as the head of list for the local elections in that city, considered the industrial capital of the country.
In the city of Beira, central Mozambique, Frelimo elected Augusta Maita, who served as permanent secretary to the Sofala Government, as head of list of the ruling party.
These elections are the first held under the new model resulting from the amendments to the Constitution approved by parliament, following the peace negotiations held with the late leader of the National Resistance (Renamo, main opposition party), Afonso Dhlakama.
Mayors will now be chosen from the most voted list for the municipal assembly and no longer be voted directly on the ballot paper, as it has been since the first municipal elections in 1998.
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