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Watch: “Critical moments cannot and should not discourage Mozambicans”- Guebuza

4:50 CAT | 05 Dec 2023

Screen grab: Armando Emílio Guebuza / Facebook

Former president of Mozambique and of the ruling party, the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), considers that the country is facing a crisis, urging greater unity to overcome the vicissitudes and avoid further difficulties in the future.

“We have critical moments, yes, but critical moments cannot and should not discourage Mozambicans,” Guebuza says in a speech posted on his official Facebook page.

The former Mozambican head of state (2005-2015), now aged 80, says that the country must prevent Mozambican children from suffering “moments of crisis like these”.

The country, Guebuza continues, must learn from negative experiences to overcome difficult phases.

“Experience is not just hearing from others; experience must become life lessons, we must learn from them to improve and avoid new crises,” Armando Guebuza stresses.

“This is not the time to be unmotivated.”

“I would like to add my voice to the voice of other Mozambicans that this is not the time to become unmotivated. This is the time to say that we have to emerge from this stronger as a country and nation,” Guebuza adds.

The former head of state does not specify the type of crisis he was referring to, but several members of Frelimo have already alluded to alleged internal fractures, particularly following the October 11 municipal elections, even demanding the holding of a reflection meeting.

On November 24, the Constitutional Council proclaimed Frelimo the winner of the municipal elections in 56 municipalities, against the previous 64, with the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) winning four, and ordered that elections be repeated in another four.

Source: Deutsche Welle