Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique’s Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs on Friday accepted the registration of the Anamola party, of politician and former presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, his legal representative, Mutola Escova, told Lusa.
“We received the communication today, in which the Ministry of Justice authorised the request to register the party, which we had submitted,” said the lawyer, adding that with this authorisation, it is now possible to register Anamola at the registry office.
Dinis Tivane, Venâncio Mondlane’s political advisor and interim secretary-general of the party, initially proposed last April as the National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique (Anamalala) and later changed to Anamola, also confirmed the registration.
“Let’s celebrate the formal start of the Mozambican revolution,” he wrote in a message on his Facebook account, stating that Venâncio Mondlane will make a decision soon.
Since the general elections on 9 October, Mozambique has experienced a climate of strong social unrest, with demonstrations and stoppages called by Mondlane, who rejects the election results that gave victory to Daniel Chapo, supported by Frelimo, the ruling party.
According to non-governmental organisations monitoring the electoral process, around 400 people died in clashes with the police, conflicts that ceased after two meetings between Mondlane and Chapo with a view to pacifying the country.
The former presidential candidate announced on 7 August that he had changed the name of his party from Anamalala to Anamola, following a request from Mozambique’s government, which considered that the previous acronym carried “a linguistic meaning”.
Anamalala means “it’s going to end” or “it’s over”, an expression used by Venâncio Mondlane during the campaign for the general elections of 9 October 2024 – the results of which he does not recognise – and which became popular during the protests he called in the following months.
The information on the proposal to change the acronym Anamalala to Anamola, which also stands for National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique, is included in the appeal that the former presidential candidate submitted to the Constitutional Council (CC) on the same day, because he considered that the Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs had not responded within the legal deadline to the request to form the party.
In a letter from the ministry, signed by minister Mateus Saíze, dated 28 May and which Lusa reported at the time, it was stated that the term “Anamalala”, a proposed acronym for the National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique, comes from the Macua language, spoken in Nampula, in the north of the country, “and therefore already carries a linguistic meaning for the communication of those who express themselves in it”.
The ministry has given a 30-day deadline for the acronym to be changed, counting from the release of the document by the Mozambican justice system.
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