Mozambique: Frelimo says it’s ready to win everything in the 2024 elections

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Mozambique: Frelimo says it’s ready to win everything in the 2024 elections

4:21 CAT | 02 Jan 2024

File photo: Lusa

The secretary general of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo, the party in power), said on Thursday (28-12) that his party was prepared to “win everything” in the general elections scheduled for October 9, 2024.

“The Frelimo started preparing for the victory of the 2024 elections when the 2019 elections ended, so we are prepared and whenever we enter an election we enter to win everything,” Roque Silva told the media on the sidelines of a public event in Inhambane, southern Mozambique.

According to Silva, it is Frelimo’s desire to win the elections and occupy all the 250 seats in the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, to “give continuity to the agenda and without some rowdy attitudes” which have occurred in parliament.

“Situations like those which happened on the day of the State of the Nation Address by the head of state only take away our pride in being a country that can serve as an example and we will work towards this and we believe that there are enough conditions,” the Frelimo secretary general said.

On that occasion, the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) parliamentary bench booed and momentarily interrupted the Mozambican head of state’s “State of the Nation” speech in protest against an alleged “mega fraud” in the municipal elections on October 11th.

The President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, on August 7th of last year called the next general elections, including the seventh presidential elections, for October 9th, 2024, the date was proposed by the National Elections Commission (CNE) and approved by the State Council.

Next year’s elections in Mozambique will cost the state around 6,500 million meticais (€96.3 million), according to the government’s 2024 budget allocation.

The next presidential, legislative, provincial assembly and provincial governor elections will therefore take place simultaneously, on a single day, across the entire extent of the Republic of Mozambique.

Filipe Nyusi, who is also leader of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo, in power), has been President of the Republic since January 15, 2015, having been re-elected for the second term, his final term as president by law.

Mozambique entered a new electoral cycle this year, with local elections in 65 municipalities held on October 11, whose results, validated by the Constitutional Council but strongly contested by the opposition, gave victory to Frelimo in 56 municipalities, with Renamo winning four and the Movimento Democratic Party of Mozambique (MDM) one, with the vote being repeated partially or wholly in the others due to irregularities.

Source: Lusa