Mozambique: MEP asks EU about combatting violence in Cabo Delgado
Filipe Nyusi in Gaza, on June 4. Photo: Frelimo Moçambique
While the Renamo party goes on moaning about problems which poisoned voter registration, the Frelimo party has registered its candidate for the 15 October presidential elections and accelerated the electoral campaign for his re-election. In one week, Filipe Nyusi was in Sofala, Manica, Gaza, Inhambane, Maputo, Nampula and Cabo Delgado. Of Ossufo Momade, there is no news.
The usual lack of transportation in the Mozambican capital got even worse on Thursday morning (June 6), as dozens of buses from Boane, Matola and Maputo municipalities were withdrawn from their routes to transport Frelimo party members who accompanied their candidate in the apotheotic submission of his candidacy for a second term as president of Mozambique.
“We have a commitment, we have a responsibility to make this country grow, to put Mozambique at the levels it deserves to be, those levels which have often been interrupted for reasons that do not really matter here, because it is not part of our working style to adduce reasons for failure or underachievement,” said Nyusi.
The candidate promised that “the fierce fight against corruption and all kinds of evils that hinder the growth of Mozambique will continue. There is no alternative: we are on the high seas between the starting point and the point of arrival, so we have no other chance, we have to get there, we have to arrive”.
The President was not accompanied by the First Lady in the seven days in which he was in Sofala (last week), visited Manica, went to Gaza, returned to Sofala, went to Inhambane and returned to Maputo, from where he again boarded the presidential plane for another election campaign, this time in Nampula Province, where he energised agriculture with the support of the World Bank, to end the week in the province of Cabo Delgado.
” The alternative to the elections is the elections, the alternative to the vote is the vote”
Of the leader of the largest opposition party there is no sign and no information as to his whereabouts. His last appearance was in Chimoio City last Sunday, where he met Filipe Nyusi, and he has no known public agenda for the five months before the presidential, legislative and provincial elections. Some of the most influential members of Renamo are “on the ground” collecting the 20,000 signatures needed for their candidate’s entrance to the presidential race.
In the meantime, in Maputo, Fernando Mazanga once again insisted on the resignation of the director-general of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE), and continues to moan about the irregularities that marred voter registration and the less-than-clear way in which voter registration machines were acquired.
“Strangely, STAE’s director-general chose to separate the mobile IDs from energy sources, which brought about all the drama that has occurred with the incompatibilities between them,” said Mazanga, who is one of the Renamo representatives in the National Election Commission (CNE).
Mazanga nevertheless promised that, in spite all the problems, Renamo would participate in the elections. “The alternative to the elections are the elections, and the alternative to voting is to vote. Therefore, we have to continue to fight and believe that the processes will, sooner or later, come to the surface, just as we have advocated in most of the laws that have been corrected.”
By Adérito Caldeira
A habitual falta de transporte na capital moçambicana agravou-se na 5ªfeira autocarros foram desviados para transportarem membros @frelimonline que acompanharam o seu candidato na submissão da candidatura para um 2º mandato como Presidente de #Moçambique https://t.co/1meGmZ0Puk pic.twitter.com/IsktdJThnx
— Verdade Democracia (@DemocraciaMZ) June 7, 2019
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