Frelimo CC meeting ends with strengthened unity

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Frelimo CC meeting ends with strengthened unity

11:12 CAT | 26 Mar 2018

Photo Courtesy: Frelimo Cidade de Maputo Facebook

The three-day meeting of the Frelimo central committee ended yesterday with a strengthening of party unity at the beginning of a new electoral cycle in the country, the final communiqué reads.

The Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo), ruling party in Mozambique, “emerged more united and cohesive in the face of upcoming challenges,” the final document of the meeting held in Matola, on the outskirts of Maputo, said.

The meeting was attended by 187 of the committee’s 195 members who discussed the political situation and preparations for the October municipal elections, and discussed the government’s actions.

“The central committee welcomes in particular the commitment [of the President of the Republic and the party, Filipe Nyusi] in the search for peace,” the final communiqué adds.

At the closing session, the head of state said that the constitutional changes in the context of peace negotiations with the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) were a priority.

Referring to recent statements by Afonso Dhlakama, the Mozambican head of state said: “It is our wish to see the process of amending the constitution proceed without doing so under threat.”

On March 14, the day of the mayoral by-election in Nampula, the country’s third-largest city, the Renamo leader denounced alleged Frelimo electoral fraud, saying that it undermined the ongoing negotiations, but Renamo won the election and the issue was not raised again.

Filipe Nyusi said yesterday that peace was the greater good for Mozambicans and, regardless of differences, it must be safeguarded.

“We call on all Mozambicans to join us in reaching peace,” he said.

As part of the peace negotiations between the government and Renamo, the Assembly of the Republic and various parliamentary committees are analysing proposals for amending the Mozambican constitution in favour of greater decentralisation

The document, presented by the Mozambican president, foresees that provincial governors in 2019 and district administrators in 2024 will no longer be appointed by central authorities but will be chosen by the winning party in the respective assemblies.

It is also expected that the presidents of municipal councils [mayors] will be elected in this way from the lists for municipal assemblies, starting in October this year, instead of by separate vote in each municipality.

Filipe Nyusi has emphasised that, as a guarantee of definitive peace, the decentralisation process must take place in parallel with the demilitarisation of Renamo’s armed wing.

Source: Lusa