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Frelimo, the ruling party in Mozambique, said that submissions to its tenth congress would reflect the concerns of the people and embody the government’s next five-year program in the event of electoral victory.
At a press conference on Mozambican Heroes Day last Friday, the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) spokesperson António Niquice said that party structures at all levels were listening to people all over the country in order to formulate proposals for submission to the organization’s next congress, scheduled to take place from September 26 to October 1 this year.
“In the congress, we will consider the submissions, which will reflect the concerns of the Mozambican people, and integrate them into Frelimo’s program for the next five years,” Niquice said, referring to the government program of the 2019 general election victors.
Social and economic development, fighting poverty and preserving peace and national unity would be the central themes of the tenth congress, he added.
“Peace is undoubtedly a sine qua non of the country focussing on development tasks, including agricultural production, movement of people and goods and the education of our children,” Niquice said.
Niquice said that Mozambican Heroes Day should be an opportunity for the nation to keep alive the ideals of patriotism and heroism bequeathed by the generation of heroes who fought Portuguese colonialism until national independence on June 25, 1975.
“February 3 is the consecration and exaltation of the heroism and achievements of the liberation generation that fought against colonialism,” Niquice said.
The Frelimo government decided to dedicate February 3 to Mozambican heroes, and declared it a national holiday in honor of the first president of the movement, Eduardo Mondlane, who was assassinated in a bomb attack on February 3, 1969.
Frelimo considers Eduardo Mondlane the architect of national unity for having led the movement after merging with various Mozambican nationalists organizations fighting against Portuguese colonial domination.
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