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MDM indicates candidates for October municipal elections
1:45 CAT | 20 Jun 2018
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The Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), the country’s third-largest political party, has chosen 52 of its 53 candidates for the October 10 municipal elections, it only remaining for it to nominate its candidate for mayor of the capital.
Luís Boavida, spokesman for the 2nd Ordinary Session of the MDM’s Political Commission, said that candidates will be the MDM heads of lists in the 53 municipalities, as required by the amendment of the Constitution of the Republic approved by the Assembly of the Republic in May.
Boavida said that most of the MDM mayoral candidates were the same ones who ran in the 2013 municipal elections.
The party has not yet chosen the name of the head of the candidacy list for the municipality of Maputo, after Venâncio Mondlane, deputy of the MDM in the Assembly of the Republic, declined the proposal to stand again – having competed and been defeated in 2013.
Daviz Simango, the MDM president and mayor of Beira, Mozambique’s second-largest city, will again be a candidate, as will Manuel de Araújo, MDM mayor of Quelimane.
In the municipality of Gurué, the MDM again picked Manuel Janeiro as candidate, after having won in 2013.
The Mozambican National Liberation Front (Frelimo) and the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition party, have not yet nominated candidates for the October 10 municipal elections.
Source: Lusa
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