The main opponent of the Frelimo regime, Venâncio Mondlane, said on Friday (21) that the tolls in Mozambique, most of which are illegal, should remain closed throughout the year.

The idea, according to Mondlane, is to find mechanisms to reform the sector that regulates the installation of tolls and make them legal.

"There needs to be a total overhaul of the tolls. Most of them are illicit, illegal, and should be closed down permanently. Our proposal is to suspend toll collection by 2025 while this sector is completely reformed," he said during a live broadcast on a social network where he presented what he called the 2025-2029 Five-Year Plan.

It should be remembered that toll collection has been suspended since last year as a result of the post-election demonstrations. Several tolls were vandalized, even after an unsuccessful attempt to resume toll collection.

On Venâncio Mondlane's instructions, a new decision on whether or not to resume would be made after April 27, when the first hundred days of "parallel" governance would be evaluated.

The Mozambique Road Network (REVIMO) says it has incurred losses of 655 million Meticais, due to the destruction and non-payment of tolls in the cities of Maputo and Maputo province. Of the 16 REVIMO tolls, only four are in operation.

TRAC has two partially operational tolls in Maputo.