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Renamo’s interim leader today accused the Mozambican police force of helping Frelimo win the forthcoming October 10 municipal elections by harassing the main Mozambique opposition party’s members and candidates.
“The Police of the Republic of Mozambique [PRM] is not at the service of the Mozambican people, but rather serves the political and electoral agenda of the Frelimo party, which it desperately tries to help win elections,” interim coordinator of the Political Commission of the Mozambican National Resistance [Renamo], Ossufo Momade, said.
Ossufo Momade made the denunciation in a statement he read by telephone to the media gathered at the Maputo headquarters of the main opposition party.
Renamo’s interim leader said that the persecution and harassment of party activists and candidates carrying out legitimate political activity ran counter to the spirit of the peace dialogue with the Frelimo government.
“It is incomprehensible, in Renamo’s view, that the ruling party, whose government is negotiating the peace, decentralisation and reintegration of Renamo’s residual forces in the Defence and Security Forces, should use these same forces precisely as its armed wing to prevent the democratic and peaceful participation of Renamo in electoral processes,” Ossufo Momade said.
The prevention by the police of the public presentation of Venâncio Mondlane, the Renamo head of list in Maputo, and the dismissal by the government of Manuel of Araújo as mayor of the country’s third-largest city, Quelimane, and head of the Renamo list there in the upcoming municipal elections, showed the political intolerance of the ruling party, Momade added.
Renamo is now assessing whether Araújo’s loss of mandate prevents him from being a candidate.
Momade used the occasion of his tele-conference to reiterate the party’s commitment to maintaining political dialogue aimed at achieving effective peace and genuine national reconciliation.
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