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Mozambique: Disarmament means free, fair elections – ruling party | Watch

5:16 CAT | 12 Jul 2023

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Frelimo, Mozambique’s ruling party, said on Tuesday that the end of the disarmament of the largest opposition party, Renamo, will allow the local elections on 11 October to be “fair and free”.“

“We believe that the environment we now live in will provide not only fair and free elections, but also our democracy,” said Verónica Macamo in her capacity as electoral representative [mandatária] of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) at the National Election Commission (CNE).

Macamo was speaking after registering the ruling party’s candidacy for the October 11 municipal elections.

The scrutiny process will take place “at a special moment”, when the weapons are buried, she emphasised.

“We showed the world and, above all, ourselves, that brothers have to be real brothers, that they treat each other with love and the love of brothers and that they will resolve their differences through dialogue,” Macamo emphasised.

On October 11, Mozambique will hold its sixth round of municipal elections, with voting taking place in all 65 municipalities in the country.

The last Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) base – in the district of Gorongosa, in the country’s central Sofala province – was closed on June 15, marking the conclusion of the disarmament and demobilisation of the party’s guerrillas.

A total of 5,221 Renamo guerrillas returned home as part of the process.

This is to be followed by a reintegration phase, which includes the commencement of pensions being paid to demobilised soldiers.

Watch the TVM report.