The Political Commission of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), met this weekend in Maputo, to reflect on a subject that, according to analysts, has been neglected by Frelimo: the State that Mozambicans want, because, they argue, the current one is too partisan and far from being a vision of the nation.

The need to rethink the Mozambican state has been defended as urgent in different sectors of society, so that new paths can be established to drive the country's development.

It should be noted that Mozambique already had Agenda 2025, which was intended to be a strategy and a vision of the nation, but it was not followed.

The government says that regarding this issue, many challenges, endogenous and exogenous, are facing the country, "not only from an economic, social or political point of view, but also in terms of consensus on the vision and strategy for growth and development.

The President of MDM, Lutero Simango, quoted by VOA said at the opening of the meeting of the Political Commission of the party, that this issue deserves "a frank and open approach, about the kind of state we want.

The analyst, João Feijó, says that there has to be a concrete, coherent, long-term plan, which at the moment does not exist, stressing that the financing issue can be solved by someone who "sees that there is a place where they can channel money to a project that is as credible and consensual as possible and capable of providing guarantees.

Analyst Moisés Mabunda believes that with the current state, "deeply partisanized, we don't know what we will be in 50 years, we don't have that vision; the Frelimo governments have always neglected this very important issue.

"This is a problem that we have, in general, in our society; our state was constituted very over the knee; we had Agenda 2025, but it was not followed; we don't have the capacity to assume institutional memory," said the analyst Ismael Mussá.

Absence of utopias

Mussá noted that "each of us, when we enter government, erase everything that was done in the past and start a new page; this is a problem we have and that's why I think it's important to reflect on the state we want, to have more solid institutions."

For that analyst, it is urgent to create a commission to reflect on the State that the Mozambicans want, "a commission that has people of various sensibilities, to reflect on the State that we want, to avoid situations where today we want district elections and tomorrow we no longer want them.

"When are we going to stop and reflect on the state so that we can fall into normality, because we are not yet in normality, we are always doing the by-pass."

For his part, analyst Hilário Chacate also says there is a need for deep reflection about our state, stressing that what always happens in our country is the discontinuity of processes, because, for example, each minister who takes office always has a different agenda from the previous leader.

"The country needs a National Strategic Plan, because one of the problems we have as a state is the absence of utopias that guide us and move us in the same direction as a nation and in a collective way," argues that analyst.