The member of the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO), Elias Dhlakama, recognized today that the National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique (ANAMOLA) will strengthen the opposition in the country.

Despite recognizing the added value of the party headed by former presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, the brother of Afonso Dhlakama, the former president of RENAMO, says that the party will not replace his party.

He was speaking today at Success TV when asked to comment on reports of alleged boycotts by RENAMO members to join ANAMOLA.

"It's about respect. In Mozambique there is room for all parties, each with their own space. It's more like ANAMOLA has come to replace RENAMO. There is no relationship between ANAMOLA and RENAMO. The only relationship is that the two parties will be in opposition together," he said.

In fact, for Elias Dhlakama, the emergence of the party founded by Venâncio Mondlane is the result of RENAMO's democratic struggle.

"It's worth respecting. Venâncio himself recognizes that, in order to create the ANAMOLA party today, it depended to a large extent on RENAMO, which fought for 16 years for democracy in Mozambique, culminating in multipartyism. In other words, the origin of ANAMOLA depends on RENAMO," he said.

He stressed that RENAMO will not be shaken by the emergence of new parties, not least because it has resisted attempts to eliminate them. In this regard, he accused the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) of having financed Raúl Domingos' Party for Peace, Democracy and Development (PDD) - RENAMO's negotiator for the Rome agreements - in order to destroy RENAMO.

"When Raul Domingos left RENAMO, he was financed by FRELIMO. The propaganda material, the capulanas, the T-shirts, the only thing that differed was the figures who were there, one was Armando Guebuza and the other was Raúl Domingos, but all the cloths, the factories where they were made were the same. Raúl Domingos traveled all over the country in a helicopter. Where did he get the money?" he asked.

He also pointed to the case of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), which was unsuccessful in its attempt to unseat RENAMO.

"If it exists today, it's because of Sofala. The day Sofala is removed, it will disappear," he noted.