Mozambique: Mondlane says 15,000 new members joined Anamola within first seven hours of registration platform launch

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Mozambique: Mondlane says 15,000 new members joined Anamola within first seven hours of registration platform launch

10:09 CAT | 22 Sep 2025

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Mozambican politician Venâncio Mondlane has claimed that 15,000 people registered as members of his newly founded political party, the National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique (Anamola), within the first seven hours of launching its digital registration platform.

“Since we launched the app, we’ve had 15,000 registrations in seven hours,” said Mondlane yesterday during the first regular session of the Anamola National Council, which is being held in Beira, Sofala province, central Mozambique. Mondlane currently serves as interim president of the party.

According to the politician, the surge in registrations overwhelmed the system, forcing the technical team to upgrade infrastructure.

“When our coordinator of the technological development centre—a young man based in Portugal—showed me the dashboard, the processor temperature was reaching between 100% and 105%. I asked him, ‘What’s the solution? Can’t these people register?’ and he told me we needed to triple the processor capacity,” Mondlane recounted.

At least 300 participants, both national and international, were expected at the council session, which marks the official launch of the political movement. The event includes the election of permanent leadership and the approval of internal regulatory instruments, and runs until Monday.

Mondlane announced a target of three million verified party members, highlighting digital expansion and cyber security as priorities. He also warned of potential sabotage attempts against the party’s digital infrastructure.

“I’ve asked for increased security because some will try to take down our system rather than present a political alternative or engage in healthy mobilisation. So we’ll be strengthening our defences. By the time of our next national convention, I believe Anamola will have at least three to three and a half million registered and verified members.”

Mondlane, a former presidential candidate in the 2024 general elections, which he has refused to recognise, also declared his intention for Anamola to become a leading force in national law-making.

“We have many proposals. What we want in the near future is to dominate the production of legislative initiatives at the national level. Parliament itself shouldn’t be producing more than Anamola will.”

Anamola was officially registered as a political party on 15 August, following a request submitted in April to the Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs.

Mondlane ran in the 9 October 2024 presidential election, won by Daniel Chapo, the candidate of the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo). Mondlane does not accept the results of the vote, which took place amid intense political tensions and unrest that reportedly resulted in around 400 deaths in clashes with police forces.

He has since held two meetings with President Chapo in efforts to restore peace and political stability in the country.

Source: Lusa