Mozambique: Special parliament session in June

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Mozambique: Special parliament session in June

8:11 CAT | 29 May 2018

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There will be a special session of parliament (AR, Assembleia da Republica) in June, speaker Veronica Macamo announced at the closing of the regular session on Friday 25 May. (O Pais 28 May). The session will deal with law changes required by the constitutional changes. No details were given, but at the very least the municipal election law must be amended to remove the direct election of mayors, and perhaps slightly change the calendar.

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Significant changes and some new laws must be agreed before national elections in October next year. These include changing the structure of provincial assembly elections (because there is no single list with a head to become governor – lists are by district), a new law for Maputo (which is both a municipality and province, which must be clarified under the amendments), finding a way to appoint a new governor or mayor if the sitting one dies (and which seems never to have been considered in the discussions of the head of list system), and, perhaps most difficult, a financial decentralisation law for provinces and districts. It is also possible there will be a military agreement to discuss.

By Joseph Hanlon

Source: News reports & clippings