Mozambique: Agostinho Vuma and Álvaro Massinga running for the presidency of CTA

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Mozambique: Agostinho Vuma and Álvaro Massinga running for the presidency of CTA

12:35 CAT | 30 Nov 2020

Photo: O País

Two lists are competing for the presidency of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA), with the respective representatives on Friday submitting their candidacies to the body’s electoral commission.

The candidates are the Mozambican Federation of Contractors, represented by Agostinho Vuma, and the Chamber of Commerce of Mozambique, represented by Álvaro Massinga.

Businessman Adelino Buque, the agent of the group in which Agostinho Vuma is head of list, explains that the candidacy is based on continuity of the work which has already been carried out.

“It is a candidacy for continuity in the sense that, at this moment, the first term ends and we are going to enter the second term. This candidacy results from the sense of mission which characterised the first three years We were satisfied with what was done and even with the CTA chairman’s own pronouncement; we managed to carry out the manifest in the order of 92 percent,” Buque said.

Buque also pointed out that, from the point of view of the public-private dialogue “there was a very big evolution” in the first term. “For a long time it was CTA’s intention to bring the public private dialogue to the headquarters of the Prime Minister’s office. This had not been achieved, but, in the three-year period that has just ended, that desire was achieved. Right now, although the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is the focal point, the Prime Minister is where the public-private dialogue is directed to,” he said.

Lawyer Rodrigo Rocha is the representative of the Chamber of Commerce of Mozambique, which submitted its candidacy on Friday afternoon. Among its main aims are the need to give CTA members greater dignity and to create a more inclusive business confederation.

“The first issue is the dignity that we want to revive amidst our entrepreneurs. We want to make the dignity of the Mozambican business community more visible in the actions of a much more vigorous CTA which is more capable of intervention at all levels of our Mozambican reality,” Rocha explained.

Rocha also underlined that the list led by Álvaro Massinga wants to “strive for transparency in the CTA’s management, as well as in relationships with CTA partners, both in terms of performance and in terms of access to public means, the public entities which CTA addresses itself,” he explained.

“CTA lives for its members, for its associates and for entrepreneurs in general. The process that this candidacy presents is a process which aims to include members and bring together the capabilities and interests of the national business community in its relationship with the Government, with public and private entities, with the whole machinery which makes Mozambique work,” Rocha says.

As a next step, the CTA Election Commission will review the documentation submitted and call on candidates to make good any anomalies within 48 hours. Candidates’ support lists will be published 20 days from last Friday, and elections will take place on 17 December.

By Clemêncio Fijamo

Source: O País