Africa-Press – Mozambique. The chairperson of the Mozambican Chamber of Commerce (CCM), Álvaro Massingue, has been ruled out of standing in the internal elections for the presidency of the country’s Confederation of Business Associations (CTA), which are scheduled for 8 May.
Massingue, who had announced his candidacy for the presidency of the CTA, is accused of interfering in the internal organization of the elections “through a scheme of massive regularization of membership fees with funds of obscure origin, affecting the institutional integrity of the CTA and damaging the principle of fairness and transparency.”
Massingue has denied the accusations circulating against him, and has accused the CTA management of ignoring a court ruling in his favour.
The decision to suspend the Chamber of Commerce, and Massingue, was taken by the organization’s board of directors during an extraordinary session held last Thursday.
“By means of a notice of decision in a disciplinary case, the CTA, through its board of directors, took the decision to remove Álvaro Massingue from all activities as a member for a period of one year, a fact that also prohibits him from participating and running in the elections for the presidency to succeed Agostinho Vuma”, reads a statement.
According to the document, in the light of the decision by the CTA’s board of directors, “the CCM loses the right to exercise its rights as set out in Article 9 of the Statutes. Álvaro Massingue, as the CCM’s top leader and the moral and material perpetrator of the offences found, is prohibited from participating in any CTA electoral proceedings, through the CCM or any other member of the Confederation, for the same period of 12 months.”
The main accusation against Massingue is that he paid membership fees in arrears for dozens of CTA affiliates. Interviewed by the independent television station STV, he denied the accusation – but added that there is nothing illegal, or against the CTA statutes, about paying other people’s membership fees.
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