The leader of Renamo, the largest opposition party, Ossufo Momade, minimizes the challenges to his leadership by some guerrillas, and says he will carry out his mandate until the end.

In recent times, some Renamo guerrillas have been contesting the leadership of Ossufo Momade, whom they accuse of mismanaging the party, but he says he won't leave, "because I was elected at the congress and I'm still in office.

However, the Renamo leader assured that "in 2024 we will hold our congress and it is this congress that will determine whether Ossufo Momade will continue or not".

The protest is led by General Thimocene Maquinze, who, according to Renamo spokesman José Manteigas, "is the victim of a machination, because General Maquinze has worked very closely with President Ossufo Momade, he is our chief of general staff and has permanent interaction with the president of our party".

Meanwhile, political analyst Tomás Vieira Mário, without stating whether or not there is any machination in this case, criticized the fact that in the Mozambican political class there is a very easy discourse of never looking inside and finding internal reasons, but always finding reasons outside the party.

"It's always an outside hand, it's always an insider, it's always sabotage, there's never the courage to look inwards and say, let's sit down and get along," says Vieira Mário.