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Frelimo Central Committee meets this week

4:22 CAT | 06 Oct 2016

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The Central Committee of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party will meet in extraordinary session this weekend to discuss, among other matters, the internal directives that will govern the election of delegates to the 11th Frelimo Congress, scheduled for September 2016.

Speaking at a Maputo press conference on Thursday, the Central Committee Secretary for Mobilization and Propaganda. Antonio Niquice, said the period prior to the congress was when Frelimo would “revitalize” its branches and committees, holding elections throughout the Party’s structures.

The Central Committee will analyse and approve a code of conduct that would regulate the electoral procedures “from the grass roots to the highest levels. In any such process rules must be laid down, and the code of conduct does that”.

The Central Committee will also analyse documents remitted to it by the Frelimo Cadre Conference held from 1 to 3 October.

The Conference was consultative, said Niquice, and so could take no binding decisions. But if the Central Committee agrees with decisions forwarded from the Conference it can approve them and transform them into guidelines binding across the party.

Asked whether Frelimo will take measures against members who bring the Party into disrepute, such as Nilsa Gomes, a Frelimo member of the municipal assembly in the central city of Quelimane who last week issued a death threat against the city’s mayor, Manuel de Araujo, Niquice said the law should take its course in such cases.

The relevant legal institutions should take action against all politicians who broke the law – and Niquice specifically mentioned the crimes being committed by gunmen of the rebel movement Renamo.

“We should be held responsible for the offences we commit”, he said.

Source: AIM