Africa-Press – Mozambique. On Friday (03-05), Mozambicans will meet Frelimo’s presidential candidate for the October 9th elections. Filipe Nyusi’s likely successor will be elected during the First Extraordinary Session of the Central Committee, the party’s most important body in the interval between congresses.
However, the existing certainty about the date for the choice of the ruling party’s next presidential candidate is not accompanied by any certainty over the names to be put on the internal ballot. With less than three days left until the selection, the list of pre-candidates remains in the Political Commission’s lockers. Samora Machel Júnior, José Pacheco and António Hama Thai were the first to publicly admit their desire to succeed Filipe Jacinto Nyusi at Ponta Vermelha.
Yesterday, it was the turn of Frelimo deputy and TV chairperson Gabriel Júnior to express his desire to assume the presidency. In a video shared on social media, Gabriel Júnior appears leaving the Frelimo party headquarters building after submitting his candidacy. ‘Thank you very much guys. Today is one of those days, I’m leaving my party [headquarters] to show all my availability to run for president of my country, and a dream is a dream. Hugs!’ he said in his short statement.
On Thursday, the Frelimo Political Commission will meet to deliberate on the party’s list of candidates, in a true race against the clock. The week is the longest of the year, and with the coldest dawns among the ‘presidential comrades’.
Last week, Frelimo spokesperson Ludmila Maguni reiterated that the Political Commission had not received any candidacies, although behind the scenes movements were beginning to gain colour and shape.
Samora Machel Júnior was the first to publish his manifesto, followed by Hama Thai and José Pacheco.
From the Central Committee, the ACLLN (Association of Combatants of the National Liberation Struggle) is demanding a charismatic, balanced, thoughtful candidate who “properly masters the country’s major dossiers’ ‘. It also demands that the next President of the Republic be a figure who inspires confidence among the comrades, with a clean past and who is knowledgeable about the party’ history and heroes.
In turn, the OMM (Mozambican Women’s Organization – Frelimo’s women’s wing) demands a candidate who is not vain and mercantilist, while the OJM (Mozambican Youth Organization, Frelimo Youth Wing) says that it wants a candidate like Filipe Nyusi.
It should be noted that, in addition to Samora Machel Júnior, António Hama Thai, José Pacheco and Gabriel Júnior, Frelimo’s list of presidential candidates also includes Luísa Diogo, Aires Ali, Alberto Vaquina, Basílio Monteiro, Celso Correia and Amélia Muendane.
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