The Central Committee of Frelimo, the ruling party, will meet tomorrow (24.03) to discuss the next electoral cycle, which kicks off with the local elections on 11 October, the organization announced in a statement.

According to Lusa, which quotes the party statement, Frelimo will also be analyzing, in the city of Matola, on the outskirts of the capital, the viability of the first elections of district administrators, scheduled for 2024, a ballot that the ruling party has said several times should be the subject of reflection.

The President of the Republic and leader of Frelimo, Filipe Nyusi, has argued that the financial and administrative implications of this ballot should be analyzed, while Renamo says that "it only changes the way the administrator is appointed, from 'appointed' [by the central power] to 'elected'".

Renamo has been defending the holding of district elections, considering that they are the basis of the peace agreement it signed with the government and were enshrined in the Constitution in 2018.

In fact, Renamo believes that not holding district elections would be a violation of the Constitution of the Republic.

Also on the agenda for the debate of the Central Committee of the Frelimo party is the social and economic situation in the country, at a time when the most deprived populations are increasingly feeling the weight of the cost of living, aggravated by the global inflationary crisis.

The political and military situation will also be the subject of the meeting, in a context in which, on the one hand, a rebel insurgency prevails in Cabo Delgado (north) and, on the other, the Mozambican authorities are under enormous protest, after the police cracked down on peaceful marches in homage to the late social intervention rapper Azagaia last Saturday.

Mozambique enters a new electoral cycle this year, with local elections on October 11 and general elections in 2024.