Renamo, the second largest opposition party, says that it does not recognize the results of the CRED because the commission itself is "unconstitutional". According to Renamo, the financial reasons given in its report are unclear. The commission to reflect on the pertinence of holding district elections in 2024 has produced results that do not recommend...
An electoral inspector for the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) said today that he was "brutally beaten" by police officers when he tried to prevent the irregular registration of people from outside the municipal radius at a registration office in central Mozambique. Augusto Macorreia said he was "dragged on the ground" out of the registration office and "beaten"...
A tug-of-war may have broken out between Renamo and the government over the issue of pensions for the guerrillas of that opposition party, which Ossufo Momade is demanding be paid unconditionally, while the Executive argues that payment should begin after the closure of the last guerrilla base, in Gorongosa, in the center of the country. A...
The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) considered today that a possible postponement of the district elections disrespects the understandings between the head of state, Filipe Nyusi, and the late party leader Afonso Dhlakama, within the scope of the peace agreements. "Not holding the district elections is disrespecting the memory of the late president Afonso Dhlakama, with whom the...
The United Nations Secretary-General's personal envoy to Mozambique, Mirko Manzoni, said that the last base of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) could be closed this month, following the 2019 peace agreement. "I'm going to talk to the parties. I don't think we'll have any problems and we'll be able to close the base by the end of...
The UN Secretary-General's envoy to Mozambique told Lusa yesterday that the government has the money to pay pensions to Renamo guerrillas and that the demobilization process will be completed "in the next few months". "I think the demobilization process will be completed in the next few months. It's clear that what was...
Despite the boycott by the Renamo and MDM parties, who were demonstrating with placards reading "Tirano, out" and "Down with dictatorship", Frelimo approved the Electoral Law, which reduces the deadline for setting the election date from 18 to 15 months. Today we are faced with a proposal from a...
The leader of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo, opposition) said yesterday that the current President cannot run for a third term, stressing that the Constitution forbids this ambition and that the Mozambican people want political alternation. "What [Filipe] Nyusi wants I can't be a witness to, what I have to defend is the Constitution...
It was already foreseeable and the scenario pointed that way. There will be no district elections in 2024. The Frelimo Party decided not to go ahead with the elections, thus violating an agreement signed with Renamo which at the time, among several points, called for district elections. The Center for Public Integrity (CIP) writes quoting a...
Renamo, Mozambique's main opposition party, today accused the ruling Frelimo party of "making it impossible" to hold the first district elections in the country and calling into question the "spirit of national reconciliation and peace". "The Frelimo party does not want the district elections to take place," emphasized Venâncio Mondlane, a member of parliament and rapporteur for the...