Mozambique: Parliament’s operational budget more than doubles to €80.3M this year

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Mozambique: Parliament’s operational budget more than doubles to €80.3M this year

7:20 CAT | 12 May 2025

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The budget of Mozambique’s parliament has more than doubled in one year to €80.3 million in 2025, according to the resolution approving it, seen by Lusa on Friday.

According to the resolution, the Mozambican parliament approved a budget of 5.775 billion meticais (€80.3 million) for its operations in 2025, which represents an increase of more than double the 2.655 billion meticais (€36.9 million) with which the AR operated in 2024.

The document Lusa consulted states that of the total, 4.864 billion meticais (€67.6 million) will be allocated to operating expenses, including salaries and remuneration, goods and services and current transfers, and 414 million meticais (€5.7 million) will be allocated to investment expenses.

The tenth legislature, which began in January after the elections on 9 October last year, has 171 deputies from the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), which retains a parliamentary majority.

As a result of its support for presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, the Optimistic People for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos) party, which had never had a member of parliament since its creation in 2019, became the largest opposition party with 43 seats. This took a status that had belonged to the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) since the first multiparty elections in 1994, which now has 28 members of parliament.

The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the fourth largest parliamentary force, has eight MPs.

Mozambique has experienced the worst unrest the country has seen since the first multiparty elections (1994). It is led by former presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who rejects the election results of 9 October, which gave victory to Daniel Chapo.

According to data from civil society organisations, almost 400 people lost their lives as a result of clashes between the police and demonstrators, which also degenerated into looting and destruction of businesses and public infrastructure.

Mozambique’s government had previously confirmed at least 80 deaths, as well as the destruction of 1,677 commercial establishments, 177 schools and 23 health facilities during the demonstrations.

However, on 23 March, Mondlane and Daniel Chapo, the newly sworn-in president, met for the first time and committed to ending post-election violence in the country, although both politicians’ mutual criticism and accusations continue in public statements.

Source: Lusa