“Renamo was not prepared for this electoral process” – Caifadine Manasse

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“Renamo was not prepared for this electoral process” – Caifadine Manasse

2:14 CAT | 05 Sep 2018

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Mozambique political party Frelimo considers that the ruling of the Constitutional Council confirming Venâncio Mondlane’s ban from the next municipal elections demonstrates that Mozambique is a democratic constitutional state where the rule of law prevails.

According to Frelimo spokesman Caifadine Manasse, in order to destroy the MDM, Renamo, instead of looking for serious candidates, attempted to confound state organs such as the CNE and the Constitutional Council, and for this reason should blame no-one but itself.

“This is a state of democratic law, in which political parties have to work on their day-to-day respect for the law in order not to fall out with what is established in a democracy,” Manasse said. Mozambicans were becoming more and more mature, and understood that it was not by force that one should direct the destinies of a country, but by respect for the law, he added.

The Frelimo spokesman also said that Renamo had had plenty of time to prepare for the elections, and that, as a party represented in parliament and participating in drafting and approving the electoral law, should not be expected to violate it in such a flagrant manner.

“Renamo was a participant, and a participant of great weight, in all the laws that we have at the moment regarding elections, because Renamo even forced us to have a partisan election commission,” he argued.

And for this reason, Manasse understands that “Renamo was not prepared for this electoral process”, and advises it to accept the law.

Source: Folha de Maputo