Mozambique: Salomão Muchanga unveils “New Democracy” party

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Mozambique: Salomão Muchanga unveils “New Democracy” party

2:20 CAT | 07 Jun 2019

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Salomão Muchanga, a former president of Mozambique’s civil society organisation the Youth Parliament, on Tuesday presented a new political party in Maputo called “New Democracy, which will be present in the forthcoming electoral race.

In the presentation, he said that the new party would fill a void of leadership that exists both in the opposition and in the ruling party.

“Mozambique resents the lack of serious leadership which sovereignly safeguards the will of the people, economic and social well-being, and peace. It is within this scope of promoting progress and social justice and a broader concept of freedom that ‘New Democracy’ emerges,” he said.

The new party, whose first objective is to have parliamentary seats, says that it is fighting for the young person with dreams, the battling woman, the civil servant, the student, the teacher, the police officer, the sportsman, the artist, the farmer , the journalist, the merchant, the health professional – in short, the citizen.

“It is against the political culture of self-indulgence instilled by the predatory elite of the state, in the logic of a system corrupted in all its democratic pillars where the ‘software’ of a reproductive ‘curriculum’ has been installed, in which we are all contaminated by the lack of a state project,” he said.

“We want to build the dignity of Mozambicans, build tolerance and rescue independent Mozambique, where diversity does not frighten us and unity is not a cliché, as much as we dialogue with the world as a global village, a Mozambique where everyone has the opportunity to dream and believe in their potential, without having to settle for the demoralising spirit of leaders who hold them accountable for collective failure. We want to sow hope not only in the country, but in Mozambicans,” Muchanga said.

As to whether or not this is just another opposition party, Salomão Muchanga declared: “We intend to kill the loser culture, believing that we can reap experience before a greater victory. We want to plant a commitment to results, building a state that democratises and autonomises its institutions, so that political action is decentralised.”

Source: CanalMoz