The deputies of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) will be able to take up their seats in the Assembly of the Republic from Monday, said party president Lutero Simango on Sunday.

"The MDM MPs elected to the Assembly of the Republic will take office from tomorrow. As far as we are concerned, the conditions are in place for them to take office, but we are waiting for confirmation from the Assembly of the Republic authorities," he said.

Like the Renamo party, the MDM boycotted the inauguration on January 13, demanding that the electoral truth be restored.

"We did not take office to convey to the government of the day that national political dialogue is a national imperative, so that Mozambicans can find and normalize the socio-political life of the country," he said.

Meanwhile, Simango said that the party had done its part, letting the country and the world know that it recognizes and disagrees with the results legitimized by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and the Constitutional Council.

"We are going to take office because we have already fulfilled our political and strategic mission, which was firstly to tell the world and, in particular, Mozambicans, that we did not recognize the results announced by the CNE and then confirmed by the Constitutional Council ruling," he said.

The MDM has eight deputies in the 10th legislature, two more than in the 9th.