Mozambique: Podemos party wants to set up a training school for members

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Mozambique: Podemos party wants to set up a training school for members

11:45 CAT | 09 Jun 2025

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The president of Podemos, the main opposition party in the Mozambican parliament, on Thursday announced the party’s intention to create a training school for members.

“This historic moment for all of us marks the beginning of a new stage for the party in the construction of our political project. A stage that clearly recognizes that training aware, prepared and strategically aligned cadres is fundamental to strengthening our party,” president of the Optimistic People for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), Albino Forquilha, said during the opening of the first National Training and Planning Meeting of that political force, held in Beira city, Sofala province, central Mozambique.

According to the president of Podemos, the ideology of the party’s school will be based on five pillars, namely, “the cause of the struggle, political ideology, organization and planning, values and principles and strategic thinking”.

“What we are building goes much further; we are training compatriots with a critical vision, a solid political identity, public integrity and the ability to intervene in an organised manner to face the challenges of the times,” Forquilha declared.

Forquilha believes that the training mission will only be fully achieved with the existence of cadres “who deeply understand” the party’s programmes and principles, in addition to the historical role that it has in society.

“At this annual meeting, we will plan our path together,” he added.

Podemos, registered in May 2019 and made up of dissidents from the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), saw its popularity soar after the announcement, on 21, August, 2024, of its support for Venâncio Mondlane’s candidacy in the presidential elections, in light of a “political agreement”.

The “political agreement” took place shortly after Mondlane had his coalition (CAD) rejected by the Constitutional Council for “irregularities”.

In the elections held on 9 October, Podemos, which had never had a member of parliament since its creation, became the largest opposition party in Mozambique, taking away a status that had belonged to Renamo since the first multi-party elections in 1994.

In February of this year, Venâncio Mondlane and Podemos announced the end of their relationship, following accusations that the party had mismanaged the political agreement between the two parties.

Source: Lusa