MDM will hold congress in Nampula – AIM report

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MDM will hold congress in Nampula – AIM report

6:33 CAT | 22 Feb 2017

The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the country’s second largest oposition party, has decided that its second congress will be held on 5-8 December in the northern city of Nampula.

At the end of a meeting in Nampula of the MDM Political Commission on Monday, the Party’s leader, Daviz Simango, said that the Commission had decided to modernise the method for keeping track of party membership, so that there will be reliable records of the human resources available to serve the MDM.

Simango said the meeting also assessed the political and economic situation of the country, and argued that lasting peace and national reconciliation, without wars and warlike rhetoric, must be supported by all Mozambicans, particularly politicians and government members.

“The country needs investment and reforms so as to prevent economic and political conflicts”, he added. “It is thus important to explain clearly the public debts that were incurred with state guarantees, to improve the business environment and to guarantee equity on the development agenda”.

Simango called for amendments to the Mozambican constitution in order to reduce the powers of the head of state, to guarantee “effective decentralisation” and the direct election of provincial governors, and to ensure administrative freedom of courts and magistrates.

Throughout the two day meeting, one member of the Political Commission, the Mayor of Nampula, Mahamudo Amurane, did not appear, and offered no explanation for his apparent boycott.

Asked about this, Simango replied “I was not personally informed about the reasons for his absence, and so I have no comment to make”.

Amurane recently publicly claimed that unspecified members of the MDM are trying to remove him because of his drive against corruption in Nampula Municipal Council.

Source: AIM