Mozambique Elections: President Nyusi holds meeting with candidate Mondlane’s “spiritual leader”

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Mozambique Elections: President Nyusi holds meeting with candidate Mondlane’s “spiritual leader”

5:16 CAT | 08 Nov 2024

Photo: President Filipe Nyusi / Facebook

The Mozambican President met this Friday with “apostle” Luís Fole, from the Divine Hope Ministry Church, considered the “spiritual leader” of presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, to exchange “opinions” on the “situation of the country”, immersed in a post-election crisis.

“This Friday morning (…) I had a courtesy meeting with apostle Luis Fole from the Divine Hope Ministry Church, where we exchanged opinions on the situation of the country”, described Filipe Nyusi, in a message posted on his official Facebook account.

“We will continue to work inclusively, together with other sensibilities of our country, for its stability and development”, he also said in the same message.

Venâncio Mondlane, who is a pastor at the Igreja Ministério Divina Esperança, has previously referred publicly to Lourenço Luís Fole as his “mentor, guide and spiritual leader”.

The meeting between the Mozambican head of state and the leader of the Igreja Ministério Divina Esperança takes place at a time of profound post-election social unrest, with the epicentre on Thursday in Maputo, which was taken over by barricades and violent protests by Venâncio Mondlane’s supporters.

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The announcement by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) of Mozambique on 24 October of the results of the 9 October elections, in which it attributed the victory to Daniel Chapo, supported by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, the party in power since 1975) in the election for President of the Republic, with 70.67% of the votes, sparked popular protests, called by Venâncio Mondlane.

According to the CNE, Mondlane came in second place, with 20.32%, but he did not recognize the results, which still have to be validated and proclaimed by the Constitutional Council.

Following street protests that paralyzed the country, Mondlane once again called for a seven-day general strike, starting on October 31, with nationwide protests and a demonstration concentrated in Maputo previously called for Thursday, November 7.

Venâncio Mondlane announced on Thursday that the protests will continue until the electoral truth is restored.

At least three people died and 66 were injured during clashes between protesters and the police on Thursday, the Maputo Central Hospital (HCM), the largest hospital in the country, reported this Friday.

“Yesterday, the 7th [Thursday], we had a cumulative 138 patients admitted to all our entrances, of which the adult emergency room had 101 patients. Of the 101 patients, 66 were victims of these demonstrations and the rest were due to other causes”, said the director of the Adult Emergency Service at HCM, Dino Lopes, in statements to the media.

Data presented by the official indicate that at least three people lost their lives on Thursday as a result of the demonstrations.

“Of the 66 injured, we had 57 possibly with injuries caused by firearms, four by falls, three by physical assault and two injured with sharp weapons”, added the director of the Adult Emergency Service at HCM.

Source: Lusa