The Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD) reports that the government has decided to hide the amount spent on reintegration allowances for ministers, deputies, governors and the outgoing leader of the second largest party in parliament, Ossufo Momade.

According to the CDD, this decision stems from the fact that in 2020, during Filipe Nyusi's first term, the government was the target of criticism after spending more than 1.35 billion meticais on the payment of reintegration allowances. That year they shared out a whopping 640 million meticais (an average of 20 billion meticais per beneficiary), while MPs each received around 4 million meticais.

"For 2024, probably in response to the widespread criticism registered in 2020, the government has chosen to hide the amounts earmarked for reintegration subsidies. In the planning and budget documents for the year, there is no clear reference to this expense: line 143405 - Reintegration Allowance - which previously detailed the amounts allocated, is not found in the available documents and not even the line State General Charges offers clues as to the amount envisaged for these payments," reads the bulletin on Mozambican politics.

The CDD notes that the absence of this information does not mean that the distribution of money is not underway, in fact, "part of the beneficiaries, mainly ministers and governors, received their allowances in mid-November 2024, about two months before they actually left office".

This subsidy is taken from the state budget and represents a million-dollar expense. And, considering pressures such as "the Single Wage Scale fiasco", the CDD estimates that the costs for 2024 will exceed those recorded in 2020.

During the transition from the 2014-2019 legislature to the 2020-2024 legislature, in which 56% of the deputies retained their seats in the Assembly of the Republic, the deputies received the reinstatement allowance.

"In a context of extreme inequality, where millions of Mozambicans live below the poverty line, more than 60% of the population, it is morally unsustainable that a political elite continues to benefit from privileges that drain public resources to the detriment of the vulnerable majority."  it reads.