The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) party lives off quotas from hidden and never publicly audited sources, and the new National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique (ANAMOLA) party needs to do something different.

The position is that of the economist and former senior member of the ruling party, Rosário Fernandes, who wrote to ANAMOLA on the occasion of the first National Council.

"FRELIMO's main source of income has never been its membership fees, but its web of corporate investments, whether loyal or not, and other sources that have never been revealed, and have never been publicly audited," reads the letter published by ANAMOLA's interim spokesman, Dinis Tivane.

Fernandes, who predicts that ANAMOLA could double FRELIMO's five million members in a short space of time, stresses that the new party needs to do things differently, i.e. present its accounts publicly.

"ANAMOLA needs to do things differently and better, in a decisive and determined way, always prioritizing fundraising, whether internal or external, through periodic evaluations of stock and balances, and the transparent, voluntary and bona fide rendering of accounts by the various contributors," he advised.

The former President of the Tax Authority went further, stressing that it was a plausible strategy to obtain quotas in the public arena, "rather than achieving them in a hidden, fraudulent way, and by exchanging favors and cronyism of various kinds, of a vile, disgusting or criminal nature".

Later in the three-page missive, Fernandes warned, however, that parties need, at the end of the day, to capitalize on resources to build up assets and investment capable of ensuring their long-term sustainability. Therefore, ANAMOLA, as he advised, imperatively needs lines of investment and intelligent partnerships between the next two and five years.