The Secretary General of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo in power) said this Thursday that his party is ready to “win everything” in the country’s general elections scheduled for October 9, 2024.
“Frelimo started preparing to win the 2024 elections when the 2019 elections ended, so we are ready and whenever we go into elections we go out to win everything,” Roque Silva told the media on the sidelines of a public event in Inhambane, in the south of the country. Mozambique.
According to Roque Silva, Frelimo’s desire to win the elections and take all 250 seats in the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, “to continue the agenda and without any hooliganism” that occurred in parliament.
“Situations like the one that occurred on the day of the head of state’s report to the people only deprive us of the pride that we are a country that can serve as an example, and we will work on this and believe that there are enough conditions for this,” he said He. Secretary General of Frelimo.
The parliamentary group of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition force, booed and momentarily interrupted the Mozambican head of state’s speech during the annual State of the Nation address in parliament on the 20th to protest alleged “mega-rigging” in the October 11 municipal elections.
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has scheduled the next general elections on August 7, including the seventh presidential election scheduled for October 9, 2024.
Mozambique’s general elections next year will cost state coffers an estimated 6,500 million meticais (96.3 million euros), according to allocations included by the government in the draft 2024 state budget.
Thus, the next presidential, legislative, provincial assemblies and provincial governor elections will be held simultaneously, throughout the entire territory of the Republic of Mozambique and on the same day.
The election date was set following a proposal from the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and after consultation with the Council of State.
Filipe Nyusi, also the leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (under Frelimo rule), has been President of the Republic since January 15, 2015, having been reappointed for a second and final term as required by law.
This year Mozambique entered a new electoral cycle: on 11 October local elections were held in 65 municipalities, the results of which, confirmed by the Constitutional Council and strongly contested by the opposition, brought victory for Frelimo in 56 municipalities, with Renamo winning four and the Democratic Movement One Party of Mozambique. voting on the rest was repeated due to irregularities.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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