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Frelimo presidential candidate and interim party secretary general of the party Daniel Chapo sought the support of the MPLA in Luanda this Wednesday, calling it a brother party and recalling that the two parties and countries have had similar historical processes.
Daniel Chapo sees the parties as brothers who were born together and fought together, and therefore support each other. For Chapo, the MPLA’s support will “galvanize the electorate” during the campaign.
“What led me to be here is the need to strengthen relations and cooperation between the two countries, but mainly between the parties, and also to ask for support from our Angolan brothers, especially the MPLA, for the approaching electoral process. We are going to have elections on October 9th and we need to win and win well, and together we will be able to do so,” Daniel Chapo told journalists after meeting the leadership of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA, the party in power there).
“We must continue to fight for economic independence,” Chapo said.
Chapo highlighted that he had been receiving “moral and spiritual” support from “comrades” from different MPLA structures, which would help to “galvanize the electorate” when the campaign started.
He recalled that the parties were born together and both fought for their independence, achieved in the same year (1975), that of Mozambique on June 25th and Angola on November 11th.
“We are brotherly parties, we were born together, we fought together for the freedom and independence of our homelands and that is how we achieved our independence,” said Chapo, recalling that both countries also experienced periods of war after independence, and achieved peace at the same time.
“Therefore, when we have elections, we are parties that have always come together, so that, with joint efforts, we can achieve victory,” Chapo highlighted.
“When there are elections [in Angola], Frelimo has been here, with the MPLA, and when there are elections in Mozambique, the MPLA has also been with Frelimo,” continued Chapo, designating the two parties as “liberators”.
Daniel Chapo on Wednesday morning met João Lourenço, president of Angola and of the MPLA, with whom he discussed aspects linked to the development of Angola and Mozambique and cooperation between the two countries, and from whom he also received a “guarantee of spiritual and moral support.”
Chapo said that Frelimo “is not a party of promises but of doing” and that the party’s objective was to continue to respect the ideals of independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, contributing to increasing self-esteem and patriotic values for youth.
“For the future, we must continue to fight for the economic independence of our countries and continue to develop our countries, combating hunger and poverty, attracting more investment, and generating income,” Chapo said.
The Constitutional Council (CC) of Mozambique approved four candidacies for the position of President of the Republic in the October 9 elections, out of a total of 11 submitted to the body: Daniel Chapo, supported by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the party in power; Ossufo Momade, supported by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the largest opposition party; Lutero Simango, supported by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), the third parliamentary force; and Venâncio Mondlane, supported by the Democratic Alliance Coalition (CAD), which brings together nine political formations.
Voting in October covers both general and presidential elections. The current president, Filipe Nyusi, is no longer running, having reached the two-term limit laid down in the constitution.
Elections for governors and provincial assemblies take place on the same date.
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