The United Patriotic Front (FPU), a platform made up of the Angolan parties UNITA, Bloco Democrátcio (BD) and PRA-JÁ Servir Angola, called on the Mozambican Head of State to use "all serenity, inscribing his positive action in the history of a moment of serious crisis in the country, as called for by a group of renowned Mozambican intellectuals, headed by the philosopher Severino Ngoenha".

In a letter sent to Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday (08), quoted by the VOAAdalberto da Costa Júnior, Filomeno Vieira Lopes and Abel Chivukuvuku say that their "concern is even greater when a general strike is expected, announced for next Monday, the consequences of which will further aggravate Mozambique's very difficult situation, our brother country," and so they call on Nyusi to "commit himself institutionally and personally to protecting Venâncio Mondlane, because we realize that since he is at the head of the broad movement demanding electoral truth, an attitude against his physical integrity or his deprivation of liberty could lead the country into chaos."

In a possible extreme case, the three party leaders believe that such a situation is in no one's interest "even the sectors with great power in Mozambique that are slow to understand that it is necessary to change the forms of governance (renegotiate the 'social contract') and that the legal architecture of the electoral systems of many countries in the region unfortunately continues to suffer from the original vice of the party-state, opacity and lack of scrutiny of all the players."

In the same publication, Costa Júnior, Chivukuvuku and Vieira Lopes also call on Nyusi to "give prestige to African wisdom" and for the government and the Defense and Security Forces to be "receptive to all the stimuli coming from all the forces in Africa and the world, especially those that have direct economic, military and security intervention in Mozambique".

"For our part, we call on the Angolan government to also pursue a policy of encouraging peace and stability in Mozambique, against a so-called order that does not take into account the suffering of the people and the satisfaction of its citizenship," continue the FPU leaders, who point out that, since the two states are part of the same region, "disturbances in one country have repercussions in the others".

The Angolan politicians say that "the aftermath of the civil wars in our countries or the existence of military insurgencies in some cases, as well as the ongoing economic and social breakdown, with chronic inequality and poverty, contribute to multiplying tensions, weakening national cohesion, affecting territorial integrity, combined with factors of geopolitical and economic disputes that threaten not only the scope of democracy but also the integrity of the nation state.

The deaths of Elvino Dias, an advisor to Mondlane, Paulo Guambe, a PODEMOS party representative, after the elections of October 9, 2024, Anastácio Matável, a social activist, in 2019, and journalist Carlos Cardoso, in 2000, are referred to as "politically motivated, strangely not clarified by the criminal investigation police" which "have contributed to further aggravating the climate of discredit of the state and popular dissatisfaction and turbulence that has seriously disturbed the normal functioning of the country".

The FPU has sent the letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, the African Union, the Southern African Development Community, leaders of political and religious parties, civil society organizations and traditional authorities in Mozambique.

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