Mozambique Elections: 35 parties standing for parliament

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Mozambique Elections: 35 parties standing for parliament

9:18 CAT | 18 Jul 2024

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Mozambique’s National Elections Commission (CNE) announced on Thursday that it has approved lists of candidates from 35 political parties for the parliamentary elections scheduled for 9 October.

The parties approved are as follows, arranged in the order they presented their nomination papers to the CNE:

PEMO (Ecology Party of Mozambique);

MONARUMO (National Movement for the Recovery of Mozambican Unity);

PAREDE (Party of Reconciliation of Mozambique);

PUN (National Unity Party);

MPD (Patriotic Movement for Democracy);

UM (Union for Change);

PLD (Party of Freedom and Development);

UNAMO (Mozambique National Union);

MRM (Movement of Reconciliation of Mozambique);

PAHUMO (Humanitarian Party of Mozambique);

PT (Labour Party);

PARESO (Social Renewal Party);

MJRD (Youth Movement for the Restoration of Democracy);

PDM (Party for the Development of Mozambique);

PPPM (Party for the Progress of the Mozambican People);

PANAMO/CRD (Mozambican National Party);

PPD (Popular Democratic Party);

PANAOC (National Party of Workers and Peasants);

UDM (Union of Democrats of Mozambique);

PADELIMO (Democratic Liberal Party of Mozambique);

AMUSI (Action Party of United Development for All-round Salvation);

CDU (Congress of United Democrats);

PASOMO (Social Broadening Party);

MDM (Mozambique Democratic Movement);

Frelimo;

PARENA (National Reconciliation Party);

RENAMO (Mozambique National Resistance);

PEC-MT (Ecologist Party – Land Movement);

PJDM (Party of Democratic Justice of Mozambique);

ND (New Democracy);

PVM (Green Party of Mozambique);

PDD (Party of Peace, Democracy and Development);

PODEMOS (Party of Optimistic People for the Development of Mozambique);

PRDS (Party of Social Democratic Reconciliation);

RD (Democratic Revolution).

Of these 35 parties, only four (Frelimo, Renamo, the MDM and ND) have any representation in parliament, or in the provincial and municipal assemblies. Most of them do not even have a website.

They only appear during election periods, in the hope of obtaining some of the funds which the state provides for competing parties.

They are not obliged to stand in all 13 constituencies (11 provincial constituencies and two for the Mozambican diaspora).

Source: AIM