Mozambique Elections: Frelimo Central Committee to approve manifesto

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Mozambique Elections: Frelimo Central Committee to approve manifesto

1:53 CAT | 19 Jul 2024

File photo: Lusa

Mozambique’s governing Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) on Friday convened its central committee, the party’s main body between congresses, to approve its electoral manifesto for the general elections scheduled for 9 October.

The document was approved in Maputo on July 16 by the party’s political commission at the body’s 30th ordinary meeting, chaired by party president and head of state Filipe Nyusi.

“The political committee recognizes the contributions of members, supporters and various segments of society in the preparation of this proposal,” the meeting’s final statement reads.

Called by Frelimo’s political commission on June 20, the extraordinary meeting of the Central Committee will approve the electoral manifesto at the Party’s Central School in Matola on the outskirts of Maputo today.

On June 20, party spokesperson Ludmila Maguni said that the Central Committee session was “unique”, foreseeing that, with the “approval of the electoral manifesto”, the party would take to the “election process that will take place this year”.

Mozambique will hold its seventh presidential and legislative elections on October 9, simultaneously with the second for provincial governors and the fourth for provincial assemblies.

The current president, Filipe Nyusi, in office since 2014, can no longer run, as he has reached the constitutional limit of two terms.

The candidate supported by Frelimo for President of the Republic, Daniel Chapo, interim general secretary, expressed confidence on June 5 that the party would continue in power, but warned that it was time to put an end to nepotism and corruption.

“It’s 50 years of independence next year. Let’s take advantage of the opportunity to evaluate what we did during the 50 years and [program] what we have to do in the next 50 years. Because we know we will continue in power,” Chapo told an improvised rally outside the Constitutional Council in Maputo, where he presented his candidacy for President of the Republic in the October 9 elections.

In front of hundreds of supporters, and shortly after delivering, through Frelimo representative Verónica Macamo, 20,000 signatures and his residual candidacy process stages, Daniel Chapo insisted on the objective of renewal, of both the party and society, 50 years after independence from Portugal on June 25, 1975.

Source: Lusa