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The 11 provincial conferences held by Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party last week “have created the conditions for us to have a successful Congress”, declared the Party’s Secretary for Mobilisation and Propaganda, Antonio Niquice, at a Maputo press conference on Thursday.
He said that the conferences had elected 1,760 delegates to the Frelimo 11th Congress, which will be held in late September.
The conferences had also elected 119 candidates for the 180 member Central Committee. The other 61 candidates will be proposed by the central bodies of the party, and all are subject to ratification by the Congress.
In each conference a new Frelimo provincial committee was elected, and the provincial first secretary. In most cases, the existing first secretary was simply re-elected. In only two provinces did the Frelimo conferences elect a new first secretary – Dinis Vilanculos in Inhambane, and Avelino Muchine in Maputo province.
In the case of Maputo province, the conference had no choice but to elect somebody new since, on 2 June, just over a week before the conference began, the Frelimo Political Commission abruptly suspended the then first secretary, Lote Maueia.
Asked to explain this, Niquice said there were “very good reasons” for the removal of Maueia, but would not say what they were on the grounds that this was an internal Party matter. He added that the suspension of Maueia “allowed the conference to run well”.
Although Frelimo stresses the importance of empowering women, of the 11 first secretaries elected at the conferences, only one – Ana Chapo, in Manica – is a woman.
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