Last night, Carlos Jorge Siliya was elected secretary-general of the Association of Combatants of the National Liberation Struggle (ACLLN), with 103 votes.

Carlos Jorge Siliya was elected to the post following the death of the former Secretary General of the ACLLN, Fernando Faustino, on November 23, 2024, from illness.

The President of Frelimo, Daniel Chapo, recommended that the new Secretary General, in carrying out his duties, keep Frelimo's guidelines alive, resolutely defending the party's values and principles, so that the ACLLN continues to be the inexhaustible source for the consolidation of national unity, sovereignty, independence, as well as peace, reconciliation and the sustainable development of the country.

"You have a huge responsibility to ensure the unity and cohesion of veterans and their descendants from Rovuma to Maputo, but also to defend their rights enshrined in the law and in the combatants' statute," he said, quoted by AIM.

Chapo stressed that he must be an agglutinating leader, who capitalizes as much as possible on the vast experience of the veterans of the national liberation struggle so that the ACLLN always remains at the forefront of the victories and exercises that the party has ahead of it.

Carlos Siliya is a former combatant from Niassa. He is 72 years old. He was Minister of Combatants between 2020 and defeated the former secretary of the Central Verification Committee, Raimundo Diomba (67 votes); and Ágata Tadeu, who from November last year until this Saturday was acting secretary-general of the ACLLN.

Chapo said he hoped that Siliya would be a proactive leader, who would look for opportunities for former combatants to undertake income-generating initiatives in order to have housing and at the same time live in dignity with their families and, to this end, he could count on the government's support.