Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique’s Minister of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs Mateus Saíze has met a delegation from former presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane in Maputo yesterday to assess the process of legalizing Anamalala, a political force that Mondlane is in the process of founding.
“During a cordial and productive meeting that lasted about an hour, the Minister of Justice confirmed that he had officially received the document submitted by our team, regarding the regularization of some aspects related to the establishment of the political project that we lead. The minister affirmed that the process was being analysed with due rigor and that an official decision on the matter will be issued shortly,” Venâncio Mondlane wrote on his Facebook page.
Mondlane, who led the largest challenge to the election results in Mozambique since the first multiparty elections in 1994, launched the National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique (Anamalala) party on April 3 of this year, as per a request submitted to the Ministry of Justice in Maputo by his advisor, Dinis TIvane.
Anamalala is an expression in the local Macua language of the province of Nampula in northern Mozambique, meaning “it’s going to end” or “it’s over”, used by former presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane during his election campaign and which also became popular during the protests he called for.
The Mozambican politician, who was previously a member of the country’s main parties, decided to create his own political force after disagreements with the Optimistic People for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos) party, a former extra-parliamentary group which gained profile after signing a “political agreement” with Mondlane for the elections of October 9.
As a result of this “political agreement”, Podemos, made up of dissidents from the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) and which had never had a member of parliament since its creation (2019), became the largest opposition party in Mozambique, a status that had been held by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) since the first multi-party elections in 1994.
Since the October elections, Mozambique has experienced a climate of strong social unrest, with demonstrations and strikes called by Mondlane, who rejects the election results of October 9, which gave victory to Daniel Chapo, supported by the ruling party, Frelimo.
According to non-governmental organizations monitoring the process, around 400 people lost their lives as a result of clashes with the police, which ended after the meeting between Mondlane and Chapo on March 23.
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