Mozambican Bar Association has a new chairman: Flávio Menete

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Mozambican Bar Association has a new chairman: Flávio Menete

2:08 CAT | 21 Mar 2016

Notícias / Flavio Menete is the new chairman of the Mozambican Bar Association

Flavio Menete was elected chairman of the Mozambican Bar Association on Saturday with 509 votes against his competitor Stayleir Marroquim’s 249. Menete succeeds Tomas Timbane in the post after a ballot held in Maputo and all the provincial capitals.

Flávio Menete was an adviser to the Interior minister from 2002 to 2004 and later national director of the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC) from 2004 to 2007. He became the first president of the Association ‘Geração 8 de Maio’ and is vice chairman of the General Meeting of the International Bank of Mozambique (BIM). Menete, 56 years old, graduated in law at the Eduardo Mondlane University in 1997, and accumulated 21 years of legal experience as a university lecturer.

In his first words as new chairman Menete said that he represents all lawyers, and asked for solidarity among his peers so that a program benefiting all could be implemented. In his election manifesto, Menete highlighted the urgent need to empower lawyers, combat illegal prosecutions, define and implement a code of professional ethics and promote the role of the Bar in the defence of the rule of law.

Menete also promised to reduce procedural delays, combat illegal and arbitrary arrests and excessive use of violence by the police, and fight corruption and the lack of independence in the judiciary. He would move, he said, against constraints on freedom of expression and opinion, restrictions on the right of access to information, limitations on access to justice and on the rights of minorities.

Source: Notícias