Renamo’s Ivone Soares slams Frelimo over Ematum, Pro-Indicus debts

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Renamo’s Ivone Soares slams Frelimo over Ematum, Pro-Indicus debts

11:15 CAT | 21 Apr 2016

In File Club of Mozambique / Renamo's Mozambican parliament member Ivone Soares

A team led by Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario is to meet experts from the International Monetary Fund to explain the situation surrounding state-guaranteed Ematum and ProIndicus debt, after the MF announced the suspension of cooperation with Mozambique pending clarification.

The government took only twenty-four hours to form the team that will report to the IMF, but voted down a motion to discuss the public debt situation in parliament, a contrast which Renamo’s Ivone Soares says demonstrates the government’s lack of respect for both parliament and the people of Mozambique.

“Frelimo only respects those who give it money and tells the people to go take a walk,” she said in an exclusive interview with Canalmoz.

Soares promised that Renamo “will not renege on its responsibilities as a representative of the people and supervisors of the executive”. Renamo would “continue to fight for the accountability of those who harm the country”.

Asked about the next step, Soares said: “A petition signed by two thousand citizens can require the Constitutional Council or the parliament itself to rule”.

“We will not sit back and forget about the excesses and unconstitutionality practiced by the government of Frelimo,” she added, promising that Renamo would “continue to demand transparency and compliance with the dictates of the constitution”.

Renamo condemned the Frelimo bench’s decision to save the government from laying out its case before parliament. “It is disgusting to watch the Frelimo bench prevent MPs fulfilling their mandate to supervise the government,” she said.

“We are calling for all the world to hear that we demand the reinstatement of our country’s good name and the holding to account of those responsible for these bad debts, the full extent of which none of us has been informed of to this day.”

Source: Canalmoz