Mozambican politicians concerned about political stability in country

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Mozambican politicians concerned about political stability in country

3:27 CAT | 01 Dec 2016

Angop / Maragarida Talapa and Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos

Peace and stability issues in Mozambique as well as strengthening parliamentary cooperation with Angola were topped the audiences that the Speaker of the National Assembly, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, granted on Monday in Maputo, to the leaders of the parliamentary groups of Frelimo, Renamo and MDM.

Addressing the reporters at the end of the meeting, the head of MDM’s parliamentary group, Lutero Chimbirombiro Simango, said that the audience served to interact on the political situation between the two countries and exchange some experiences.

In this regard, he argued, his party presented the major challenges faced by the country, with greater emphasis on the need to work with all Mozambicans to rescue peace, such as finding a platform for revising the country’s constitution.

Lutero Simango added that this will allow to establish a common base on the process of decentralization, as well as to project the election of the governors in 2019.

Similarly, he added, there is the challenge of establishing a process of effective national reconciliation and national inclusive and participatory development.

The same concerns were also raised by Maria Ivone Soares, head of the parliamentary group of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), adding that “the meeting was very fruitful, since during that time everything that was the country’s great challenges was reviewed”.

She also said that the prospects for the future regarding the political and social situation, as well as the military and economic situation that Mozambicans are currently facing, were also addressed.

“Renamo put issues such as the integration and reintegration of our residual force into the defense and security forces at the negotiations table with the government, we are also interested in seeing the issue of governance confirmed in the six provinces where we won the elections in the last elections”, she said.

The moment also served to address the work that the Angolans did to ensure that there was a single army in Angola, since it was a country that also underwent a civil war, but eventually surpassed it.

Image result for Moçambique: Estabilidade política no país no centro das preocupações dos políticos moçambicanos — From left to right – Jose manteigas, Ivones Soares and Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos

On her turn, the head of Frelimo’s parliamentary group, Margarida Adamugi Talapa, defended that this was a great opportunity to exchange experiences between the two sister peoples, who have a common history, speak the same language and have almost identical cultures and traditions and therefore she welcomed the initiative aimed at increasing cooperation.

According to her, “this type of meeting really strengthens our work with representatives of the people”.

She also underlined the actions taken to maintain the country’s peace and stability. “We salute President Filipe Nyusi for the work he is doing to ensure that Mozambique continues, despite the threats of Renamo, with peace and stability, because national unity and peace are important assumptions for the development of any country”.

We are therefore satisfied as a meeting by appealing to all political parties that dialogue is the only way to overcome all differences and not through firearms.

Source: Angop