MADRID Jan. 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, who claims to have won the October 9 elections, has warned Podemos, the party that supported him in that event, that taking office in the Assembly on January 13, as some bodies have already anticipated, It is a lack of respect for the dead of the protests.
In an open letter addressed to the president of the Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique, Ernesto Stefane, Mondlane has asked him to take into account “the memory” of those who “fell for the cause” and of those who “fought day and night since the campaign electoral to this day”.
Thus, he has urged the party leadership not to take office in the Assembly on the 13th, two days before the country’s elected president, Daniel Chapo, does the same, whose victory has not been recognized by a Mondlane. who has been instigating street protests since his self-imposed exile.
Mondlane has assured that he is not opposed to the party taking office, but rather that it be done in the current way, when “not even the demanding principles presented to the regime have been considered.” In that sense, he believes that doing so now would “weaken the fight” that they have been maintaining these months ago.
“The electoral process was fraudulent, and even Podemos was harmed in about 90 parliamentary seats,” said Mondlane, who has given the president of Podemos three days to make a decision on the matter.
Mondlane’s letter appears days after the party accused him of “serious” violating the pre-electoral agreement, which is not public, that they had reached to go hand in hand in the elections and stressed that the elected deputies would take possession of their seats.
According to official figures, Podemos – formed by disaffected members of the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) – would be the largest opposition force in the next Assembly with 43 seats of its 250, a position it had maintained since 1994 Resistencia Mozambican National (Rhineland).
Frelimo, in power since independence in 1974, remains once again the largest force in the Assembly, with 171 deputies. Its historic rival, Renano, has 28 deputies from the 60 it had in the previous legislature.
In the presidential elections, Chapo won with 65 percent of the votes, well ahead of the 24 percent obtained by Mondlane who, according to his own figures, would have won with just over 53 percent.
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