The President of Frelimo and Head of State of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, announced this Saturday that the political commission of the party will present to the Central Committee in the coming days a list of candidates to succeed him as President of the Republic.
“The Political Commission will submit to the Central Committee proposals regarding Frelimo’s candidacy for the presidency of the Republic as soon as possible, taking into account the electoral calendar,” Filipe Nyusi said, referring to the charter, in the closing speech of the two days. the third session of the Central Committee of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the party that has led the country since independence.
“Frelimo is a mature party with a sixty-year history that knows how to carry out processes of transformation and adaptation to the dynamics of each moment of its history, recognizing that political processes are not static and should not be treated in the same way. “Like the previous ones. We hope, since this was intentional, that this process will be completed within a few days,” he said in his speech at the closing meeting, which began after 21:00 local time (20:00 in Lisbon). about six o’clock. later than previously announced.
The choice of Frelimo’s candidate for the October 9 general elections, including the presidential elections in which the current head of state and party president Filipe Nyusi can no longer stand, was not initially on the agenda for this meeting. which took place in Matola, on the outskirts of Maputo, but became the main topic of debate in the highest body between congresses.
The Frelimo Political Commission usually meets on Wednesdays, and the evaluation of the list of provisional candidates for the post of President of the Republic must be carried out at an extraordinary session of the Central Committee.
“During the course of our work, it was emphasized that from now on our main mission is to prepare and organize the victory of Frelimo and its presidential candidate in the elections of October 9, 2024. Therefore, it was clear that today we will organize and we will organize to win […]. Don’t be surprised when we win and win well,” Nyusi said.
President Frelimo congratulated the 254 members of the Central Committee for “open, frank and deep debate, even on issues that at first glance seemed quite complex, such as the question of succession to the presidency of the Republic.”
“Comrade members of the Central Committee were again able to focus the discussion on common interests, without emotion or impatience,” he said.
Mozambique will hold its seventh presidential and legislative elections on October 9: the second for provincial governors and the fourth for provincial assemblies.
The incumbent President of the Republic and Frelimo is constitutionally unable to run again for the position of head of state, as he is currently serving his second term as head of state after being elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019.
The deadline for submitting lists of candidates for the President of the Republic for the October elections to the Constitutional Council is June 10.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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