Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) candidate for President of the Republic in the October general elections, Daniel Chapo, stated on Sunday that his candidacy is “another mission”, promising to work ” with all social strata”.
“We will work based on Frelimo’s program for victory on October 9. (…) This is another mission, like so many others that have already been carried out,” Daniel Chapo told journalists shortly after the conclusion of the extraordinary session of the party’s Central Committee, which approved him as a candidate to succeed Filipe Nyusi.
The Central Committee of Frelimo, a party in power since 1975, today chose to support Daniel Francisco Chapo, governor of the province of Inhambane, as a candidate for President of the Republic in the general elections on October 9.
“We are going to work with all social strata (…) We are talking about young people, women, men, combatants, including my friends here, from the media, who do excellent work for the development of our country and we will continue to work together”, he also said, thanking the “trust placed” by the members of the Central Committee, who “represent six million militants”.
The choice of Daniel Chapo by the 254-member Central Committee came only on the third day of the extraordinary meeting of that body, initially called only for Friday, with 225 votes (94.1%) in favour.
This vote was reached after Frelimo’s general secretary, Roque Silva, who had been the second most voted in the first round, removed his name from the candidacy list, even resigning from his role in the party.
The 47-year-old will succeed, as candidate, Filipe Nyusi, President of the Republic since 2014 and also president of Frelimo, but who can no longer run for office as he has reached the constitutional two-term limit.
A graduate in Law from the Faculty of Law of Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, in 2000, Daniel Francisco Chapo was born in Inhaminga, Sofala province, central Mozambique, on January 6, 1977, making him the first Frelimo candidate born after the country’s independence in 1975.
The political commission also approved on Friday a list of candidates including Roque Silva, general secretary of the party, Daniel Chapo and Damião José, a member of that body, which took place on the same day as the extraordinary meeting of the Central Committee that began shortly afterwards at the party school in Matola, on the outskirts of Maputo.
After two days of intense internal debate around the proposed list in the Central Committee, the political committee added today the names of Esperança Bias, president of parliament, and Francisco Mucanheia, advisor to the President of the Republic, while Damião José left the list, according to party sources.
According to Frelimo’s statutes, the political commission is responsible for presenting to the members of the Central Committee a list of three pre-candidate for the position of President of the Republic.
Daniel Francisco Chapo took a Conservator and Notary course in 2004 and ten years later completed a master’s degree in Development Management from the Catholic University of Mozambique. He has taught Constitutional Law and Political Science, worked as an announcer at Rádio Miramar in the city of Beira, and was appointed conservator for the Nacala-Porto district in 2005.
In November 2015, he assumed the role of administrator of the District of Palma in Cabo Delgado province, and, in March, 2016, was appointed governor of the province of Inhambane.
Since Mozambique’s independence, all heads of state have been nominated by Frelimo. They include Samora Machel and Joaquim Chissano, who came from the south of the country, and Armando Guebuza and Filipe Nyusi (north), so Daniel Chapo is the first nominated to be born in the central region of Mozambique.
The deadline for presenting the lists of candidates for President of the Republic in the October elections to the Constitutional Council is June 10.
Mozambique will hold its seventh presidential and legislative elections on October 9. The same vote is the second for provincial governors and the fourth for provincial assemblies.
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