Simango says political crisis a result of over-centralization

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Simango says political crisis a result of over-centralization

5:19 CAT | 28 Jun 2016

Daviz Simango, the president of the MDM and head of Mozambique’s third-largest political party, believes that the current political and economic crisis the country is facing is the result of political intolerance and centralization of powers in the figure of the head of state.

Speaking on the sidelines of the country’s independence celebrations, Simango said: “Change in the political system must necessarily be done through, first, effective decentralization; second, the election of provincial governors; and third, which we consider fundamental, the reduction of the powers of the head of state.”

For Simango, the reduction of the powers of the head of state will mean political power will no longer have influence over the courts. “Today, Mozambicans are indebted [for their positions] because too much power resides in one person. So the judiciary is not free to fight the corruption and the evil that the country is experiencing from [the exercise of] political power.”

The MDM president also said that what the country needs most is an effective peace.

Source: O País