Mondlane is committed to a “peaceful transition” in the midst of the recount and without the electoral commission having published results
Oct. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Venancio Mondlane, one of the candidates for the Presidency of Mozambique, has proclaimed himself the winner of the elections and has promised to form a coalition government with numerous parties, including the governmental Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), despite the fact that The electoral commission continues with the recount and in the absence of official results.
Mondlane, who went to the polls as an independent after leaving the opposition Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), has said that the parallel count by his followers gives him victory and has opted to begin a “peaceful transition.”
Thus, he has said that he will form a “Government Transition Commission” to “move on from a regime that has lost the elections after 50 years in power and that must now hand over power to a new government,” according to the television network. mozambique STV.
“We must form a Government that does not depend on party criteria. It will depend on patriotic criteria, meritocracy and, above all, commitment to the country,” he stated, while emphasizing that he will be “on the side of the people”, that ” “is not willing to accept fraudulent election results again.”
The electoral commission has not published preliminary results for now, although the Mozambican state news agency, AIM, points out that the available documents point to a victory for the Frelimo presidential candidate, Daniel Chapo, and the party in the general elections.
This medium indicates that Mondlane is in the lead in some electoral colleges, although it assures that, in general terms, he is in second place, ahead of the Renamo candidate, Ossufo Momade, and the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), Lutero Simango .
Chapo, 47, is the first candidate presented by Frelimo that was born after the war against the former metropolis, Portugal, which led to the country’s independence in 1975 at the hands of the party, founded in 1962 by Eduardo Mondlane as Marxist nationalist movement against the authoritarian regime in the then colony.
The four candidates have put the fight against insecurity among their priorities, given that the security forces have been facing an increase in insurgency operations in Cabo Delgado (north) since 2017, a situation capitalized by the jihadist group Islamic State to expand its influence in the area.
On the other hand, among the main problems facing the country, apart from jihadist violence in the north, are the economic crisis and the impact of a serious corruption scandal that broke out in 2016 and affected several former senior Mozambican charges, as well as climate change, including phenomena such as the drought caused by ‘El Niño’ and several cyclones that have devastated part of the Mozambican territory in recent years.
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