Covid-19: MDM awaiting government’s permission to hold national council – spokesman

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Covid-19: MDM awaiting government’s permission to hold national council – spokesman

2:37 CAT | 16 Apr 2021

Photo: O País

The Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) said on Thursday that it was waiting for a response from the Ministry of Justice regarding its plans to hold its national council, which will choose the date for the congress to elect the new party leader.

“We have already submitted the request to hold our national council, since we are in this period of calamities vis-à-vis Covid-19. Our council will bring together more than 150 people, which the new decree does not allow. That is why we are waiting for a [ministerial] dispatch,” MDM spokesman Sande Carmona said.

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The party’s national council will set a date for a congress to elect a new president, replacing Daviz Simango, the party founder who died in February.

“Everything indicates that we will hold our national council this month, but we are hostages to the final order of the Ministry of Justice,” Carmona stressed, adding that “the party is stable, despite the void created by the death of a founding member”.

MDM leader Daviz Simango, who was also president of Beira Municipal Council, suffered a cardiac arrest that led to his death in the early hours of February 22, after being admitted to a South African health unit to which he was transported on February 13th as the result of a sudden illness.

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Mozambique had, by Thursday (15 April), recorded 794 Covid-19 deaths among 69.002 cases, 88.6% of which are counted as recovered, according to the latest update from the Ministry of Health.

The Covid-19 pandemic has so far caused at least 2,974,651 deaths worldwide among more than 138.2 million cases of infection, according to a report by the French agency AFP news agency.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.

Source: Lusa