Mozambique Elections: Eight small parties back Momade’s presidential candidacy

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Mozambique Elections: Eight small parties back Momade’s presidential candidacy

11:29 CAT | 19 Jul 2024

File photo: Lusa

The presidents of eight small Mozambican political parties without parliamentary representation approved a joint resolution of ‘full support’ for Ossufo Momade’s presidential candidacy in the general elections in October.

‘To give full support, in all its dimensions, to the candidacy of Ossufo Momade for President of the Republic in the elections scheduled for 9 October 2024,’ said the resolution, adopted at a meeting of party leaders on Thursday and which Lusa saw on Friday.

The positions of support involve the National Unity Party (PUN), the Ecological Party of Mozambique (Pemo), the Mozambican National Union (Unamo), the Liberal Progress Party of Mozambique (PPLM), the Central Party of Mozambique (PCM), the Congress of United Democrats (CDU), the Liberal Democratic Party of Mozambique (Padalemo), and the Union of Democrats of Mozambique (UDM).

The CDU and Pemo parties, according to data from the National Electoral Commission (CNE), were part of the first agreement in April to form the Democratic Alliance Coalition (CAD), which in turn supports the candidacy of Venâncio Mondlane, a former Renamo member and MP, for President of the Republic.

However, both parties withdrew from this coalition, according to the CNE, without this change being duly communicated, one of the reasons that led the electoral body to reject CAD’s candidacies for the legislative elections, provincial governors and provincial assemblies this Thursday.

The president of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), Ossufo Momade, is the candidate supported by the largest opposition party in October’s general elections for the post of President of the Republic, following his election at the congress held in May, which also reappointed him to the leadership.

Ossufo Momade ran for president with Renamo’s support in the 2019 elections, coming second with 21.88% in a vote that re-elected Filipe Nyusi as head of state with 73% of the vote.

On 24 June, the Constitutional Council approved the candidacies of Daniel Chapo, supported by the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Ossufo Momade, supported by Renamo, Lutero Simango, supported by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), the third force in parliament, and Venâncio Mondlane, supported by CAD, for the post of President of the Republic.

The presidential elections will be held simultaneously with the legislative elections and the elections of governors and provincial assemblies.

The current president, Filipe Nyusi, is constitutionally barred from running for office again because he is currently serving his second term at the head of state, having been elected in 2015 and 2019.

Source: Lusa