Renamo proposes António Frangoulis and Albino Nhacassa as Constitutional Council judges

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Renamo proposes António Frangoulis and Albino Nhacassa as Constitutional Council judges

2:58 CAT | 14 Aug 2019

Picture: O País

António Frangoulis and Albino Nhacassa are Renamo’s choices to occupy the position of advisory judges of the Constitutional Council.

The invitation to Frangoulis, a former director of PIC [Mozambique’s former criminal investigation police], to apply for this sovereign body was formalised last July by the ‘partridge’ party.

After leaving the Frelimo party and joining Mozambique’s second largest opposition party, the MDM, where he was an activist for about four years, the former director of the now-defunct criminal investigation police decided to join Renamo.

António Frangoulis joins the country’s largest opposition party less than a week before the extraordinary session of the Assembly of the Republic, where he is to be confirmed as a member of the Constitutional Council appointed by the ‘Partridge’.

In addition to Frangoulis, Renamo has also proposed Albino Nhacassa, the current second vice president of the Assembly of the Republic and member of the high council of the public prosecutor as their second candidate for the post of Constitutional Council judge.

José Manteigas believes that the appointment of Frangoulis and Nhacassa will give the Constitutional Council new impetus in the exercise of its functions.

Under the terms of the Constitution, the Constitutional Council is composed of seven Counsellor Judges, one appointed by the President of the Republic as the President of the Constitutional Council; five Counsellors appointed by the Assembly of the Republic according to the criterion of proportional representation; and one advising judge appointed by the Superior Council of the Judiciary.

By José Macamo

Source: O País