The President of the Mozambican Federation of Contractors (FME), Manuel Pereira, and his entire board was dismissed by the associates of nine (of the country's 11) provinces gathered last week in a General Assembly in Maputo.

Of the nine associations represented at the General Assembly, led by Agostinho Vuma, President of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique -CTA, eight voted for the dismissal of the current president of the FME.

Pereira is accused of absorbing almost all the sector's business to the benefit of his company, Grupo Construtora do Mondego SA (which includes CETA), and of abusing authoritarianism, haughtiness, and arrogance within the class that has been socially overshadowed for these reasons.

Pereira was in office for almost two terms, the first from December 2017 to 2020, and the second following his re-election in 2020 until this part.

Quoted by a portal, FME's President-interim, Justino Chemane said that Pereira's dismissal stems from the lack of execution of the agremiation's program; bad relationship with peers and an individualistic perspective on plans.

At that meeting it was also decided to create a Management Committee led by Justino Chemane and assisted by seven members.

The FME Management Commission intends to rescue the image of the class of about three thousand associated contractors and to bring a new dynamic in the articulation with the State entities and the provincial contractors associations, as well as to organize the election process of new social bodies.