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Lawyer and professor Casimiro Duarte was on Saturday elected chairman of the Mozambican Bar Association (OAM) for the next three years, defeating Miguel Mussequejua in the poll.
Casimiro Duarte, one of the best known Labour Law experts in Mozambique, won with 441 votes against 273 for Miguel Mussequejua, and will succeed Flávio Menete, who had served as OAM chair since 2016.
Menete did not run for a second and last three-year term, despite being permitted to do so by the association’s statutes.
The ballot was due to take place last year, but was postponed due to a challenge lodged by Miguel Mussequejua before the Administrative Tribunal (TA) contesting his exclusion from the OAM electoral process. The TA decided in his favour.
The position has a term of three years, renewable for another term.
The Mozambican Bar Association was created in 1994 and is one of the most respected institutions in the country in terms of reporting situations that violate the rule of democratic law and human rights.
The speech of the Chair of the OAM at the opening of the judicial year, which in Mozambique takes place on the first working day of February, is one of the most closely followed in the annual calendar, because of the incisive criticisms that are usually made about the state of justice and human rights in the country.
In recent years, the organisation has been notable in bringing lawsuits against multinationals operating in the country for violations of the rights of populations residing in areas where natural resource exploitation projects take place.
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