Mozambique: Assembly of the Republic ready for the inauguration of 250 elected deputies

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Mozambique: Assembly of the Republic ready for the inauguration of 250 elected deputies

2:57 CAT | 10 Jan 2020

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The Assembly of the Republic (RA), Mozambique’s parliament, announced today that all is ready for the inauguration next Monday of the 250 deputies elected in the country’s sixth general elections, held on October 15.

“The work has all been done and now we are ready for all the elected deputies in Maputo on Friday,” Armando Correia, secretary general of the RA, told a news conference.

The inauguration of the deputies for the ninth legislature will take place on Monday, convened by Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi.

The first parliamentary session includes two agenda items: the inauguration of the deputies and the election of the president of the RA, which had been chaired since 2010 by Verónica Macamo of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (Frelimo), the ruling party since the country’s independence in 1975.

The 15 October elections saw Frelimo elect 184 out of 250 deputies, or 73.6% of seats, with 60 seats (24%) being held by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) and six (2.4 %) by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM).

The ruling party candidate, Filipe Nyusi, was re-elected in the first round for a second term as head of state, with 73% of the vote.

In second place was Renamo candidate Ossufo Momade, with 21.88% of the vote, and in third place, Daviz Simango, leader of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), with 4.38%.

Renamo, the main opposition party, and the MDM, the third parliamentary force, do not accept the election results promulgated by the Constitutional Council, and allege that the scrutiny was marked by serious irregularities.

The inauguration of Filipe Nyusi for his second presidential term is scheduled for the following day, Tuesday 15 January.

Source: Lusa