Mozambique: Mariazinha Noquice re-elected OMM General Secretary

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Mozambique: Mariazinha Noquice re-elected OMM General Secretary

7:55 CAT | 12 Apr 2022

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Mariazinha Niquice, the general secretary of the Organization of Mozambican Women (OMM), which is affiliated to the ruling Frelimo Party, was on Monday morning elected unopposed for a second five year term of office.

She was elected at the fifth OMM Congress, by the 194 delegates of the OMM National Council. All the delegates voted for Niquice, and there were no blank or spoiled ballots.

In addition to Niquice, three members of the secretariat of the OMM National Council were also elected, namely, Regina Macuacua, Páscoa Julião and Julita Juma.

At the opening session of the Congress, on Friday, the OMM President, First Lady Isaura Nyusi, pledged that the OMM will mobilise the population massively to vote for Frelimo in the October 2023 municipal elections and the presidential and parliamentary elections of the following year.

She said that the recently achieved gender parity in the government (where 11 ministers are women and 11 are men) was the result of “the merit, self-esteem and determination” of Mozambican women, and the commitment of President Filipe Nyusi in matters related to gender.

“We members and sympathisers of the OMM restate that we shall continue to work for a strong and massive mobilisation to carry Frelimo and its candidates to an overwhelming victory in the coming elections”, declared Isaura Nyusi.

The promise to guarantee victory for Frelimo was echoed by former Prime Minister Luisa Diogo who declared that, among Frelimo’s “social organisations”, the OMM is present throughout the country and so is best placed to meet the challenge of ensuring electoral victory.