Mozambique Elections: Father Couto suggests meeting between the four presidential candidates without any other participants – O País

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Mozambique Elections: Father Couto suggests meeting between the four presidential candidates without any other participants – O País

3:43 CAT | 09 Dec 2024

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Father Filipe Couto suggests that all four candidates in the recent presidential elections should hold a meeting, without any other participants, before the Constitutional Council’s pronouncement, and that the current president should not participate, since it is his government that is under discussion.

The former Rector of Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) further argues that it is the responsibility of the four presidential candidates to calm the population.

Father Filipe was on STV’s Jornal da Noite this Sunday, reacting to the country’s current post-election crisis. For Father Couto, it is urgent that the candidates reach a consensus.

“The four have to reach an agreement, it’s time to come to our senses, time to be judicious, in the sense of going for what is possible and most reasonable and not to act like a child. He who wants everything, loses everything,” he said.

Regarding the meeting’s agenda, Couto highlighted, first, ending the demonstrations. “First, ending the strikes. They have to end, because that’s not how we’re going to get to the point,” was his reasoning.

Filipe Couto also said he rejects the idea of holding new elections, because “we don’t want that, or rather, I wouldn’t like that, but I’m not the one in charge. I don’t see money to spend again on that, when there are other things to do. Spend again on what? Buying more computers? Buying what else? Materials for what? To divert, and then discuss it in the same way”, he explained.

He also stressed the need to grant an amnesty to Venâncio Mondlane, so that he could take part in the meeting, and said he thought that the current president’s attendance would not be helpful.

Source: O País