Renamo leader Ossufo Momade rejected the election results validated and proclaimed by the Constitutional Council, promising to mobilize all Mozambicans to save democracy in the country. Speaking shortly after the decision of the Constitutional Council (CC), which declared victory for Frelimo and its candidate, with 65.17% of the votes, relegating Renamo to...
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Former guerrillas storm Renamo's national headquarters and demand the ouster of Ossufo Momade
RENAMO's National Headquarters has once again been taken over by former guerrillas and party members who are demanding the resignation of Ossufo Momade and other leading figures. On Monday, the members who are contesting the leadership took over the National Headquarters in Maputo and promised not to leave until they received a response from...
Ossufo Momade and Lutero Simango defend Venâncio Mondlane's presence in the post-election crisis debate
The meeting between the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, and the presidential candidates to find solutions to the post-election crisis ended in failure yesterday, due to the absence of Venâncio Mondlane, the candidate supported by PODEMOS, who claimed that security was not guaranteed. According to a VOA report, the President's office was attended by Daniel Chapo, from Frelimo;...
Renamo members mutiny at party headquarters and demand Ossufo Momade's ouster
Renamo members and former guerrillas have been rioting since yesterday evening at the party's headquarters in Maputo, demanding the resignation of the current Renamo leadership. According to the members and former Renamo guerrillas, the party's current leader, Ossufo Momade, and his squad must leave the leadership, pointing to the...
Post-election crisis: Momade only agrees to meet Nyusi if all candidates take part
Ossufo Momade, president and presidential candidate for Renamo, will only take part in the dialog with Filipe Nyusi on the political crisis after the electoral process if all the presidential candidates are present. "This meeting only makes sense if all the candidates are present," said Renamo spokesman Marcial Macome at the end of a meeting of the Renamo political...
Nyusi proposes meeting with presidential candidates to discuss the country's situation
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, this afternoon expressed his openness to talks with the four candidates for the Presidency of the Republic, Lutero Simango of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique, Venâncio Mondlane, an independent supported by Podemos, Ossufo Momade, of Renamo, and Daniel Chapo, of Frelimo. According to Nyusi, the possible meeting is to jointly find solutions...
"I also bang pots in my house," says Ossufo Momade
The leader of Renamo, Ossufo Momade, confessed today in Maputo that the party supports and adheres to all peaceful protests, including itself heeding the call to "panelanços" called by Venâncio Mondlane. Responding to a question about the supposedly weak presence of the political formation in the demonstrations taking place in the country, the President said...
Renamo proposes annulment of October 9 elections and creation of caretaker government
Renamo proposes the annulment of the October 9 general elections, the holding of new elections, the adoption of a government to manage public institutions and the dissolution of the current electoral management model. Ossufo Momade, President of the political grouping, explained that the elections should be annulled because there is evidence that they were fraudulent. "We have come to ask...
Renamo unaware of Ossufo Momade's resignation and capture of party headquarters by demobilized members
Renamo's political representative, Geraldo Carvalho, said today that he was unaware of reports that the party's president assumed that he himself was the party's main problem and that he had therefore made his resignation clear. Momade's departure from the party must be organized...
Ossufo Momade could lose 71 million meticais and Renamo could lose countless powers
Renamo President Ossufo Momade could lose benefits worth 71 million meticais a year if his party loses its position as the second most voted member of parliament. The political formation could also see its powers of legislative influence, such as appointing the second vice-president of the Assembly of the Republic, appointing judges...