Mozambique: Speculation soap opera is over, including the one on the third term – Nyusi | Watch

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Mozambique: Speculation soap opera is over, including the one on the third term – Nyusi | Watch

2:30 CAT | 06 May 2024

Screen grab: Limpopo Channel Moz

The president of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Filipe Nyusi, stated on Sunday that he never considered a third term as President of the Republic and that the election of Daniel Chapo as the party’s candidate puts an end to “speculation”.

“The novela [soap opera] of speculation has ended, including speculation about the third term. (…) They speculated out of fear. Frelimo respects the law and there was no reason to speculate because it is in the law,” Filipe Nyusi said this evening at the end of the extraordinary meeting of the party’s Central Committee (CC).

The CC approved yesterday, at the end of a three-day-long meeting, with 225 votes (94.1%) in favour, the choice of Daniel Chapo, current governor of the province of Inhambane, as Frelimo’s candidate for the position of President of the Republic in the October general elections.

“Let’s all carry him. He is the first face of our party in the elections on October 9th,” added Filipe Nyusi, elected President of the Republic in 2014 and who has reached the constitutional limit of two terms.

Daniel Chapo, 47 years old, graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, in 2000. He was born in Inhaminga, Sofala province, central Mozambique, on January 6, 1977, and is therefore the first candidate member of Frelimo, born after the country’s independence (1975).

The Frelimo Political Commission on Friday approved a list of pre-candidates including Roque Silva, general secretary of the party, Daniel Chapo and Damião José, this member of that body, which took place on the same day to the extraordinary meeting of the Central Committee that began shortly afterwards at the party school, in Matola, on the outskirts of Maputo.

After two days of intense internal debate around the proposed list in the Central Committee, the political committee added today the names of Esperança Bias, president of parliament, and Francisco Mucanheia, advisor to the President of the Republic, while Damião José left the race, according to party sources.

Nyusi also announced that Roque Silva had resigned as party general secretary.

According to Frelimo’s statutes, the political commission is responsible for presenting to the members of the Central Committee a list of three pre-candidate for the position of President of the Republic.

Daniel Francisco Chapo took a Conservator and Notary course in 2004 and ten years later completed a master’s degree in Development Management from the Catholic University of Mozambique. He has taught Constitutional Law and Political Science, worked as an announcer at Rádio Miramar in the city of Beira, and was appointed conservator for the Nacala-Porto district in 2005.

In November 2015, he assumed the role of administrator of the District of Palma in Cabo Delgado province, and, in March, 2016, was appointed governor of the province of Inhambane.

Since Mozambique’s independence, all heads of state have been nominated by Frelimo. They include Samora Machel and Joaquim Chissano, who came from the south of the country, and Armando Guebuza and Filipe Nyusi (north), so Daniel Chapo is the first nominated to be born in the central region of Mozambique.

The deadline for presenting the lists of candidates for President of the Republic in the October elections to the Constitutional Council is June 10.

Mozambique will hold its seventh presidential and legislative elections on October 9. The same vote is the second for provincial governors and the fourth for provincial assemblies.

Source: Lusa / Limpopo Channel Moz