Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Head of State, Filipe Nyusi, this afternoon appointed the president of the Party for Peace, Democracy and Development (PDD)and former Renamo number 2, Raul Domingos, to the post of ambassador of Mozambique to the Holy See (Vatican).
Raul Domingos replaces Sérgio Nathú Cabá, a former deputy director general of SISE (State’s Security and Intelligence Service ), who accumulated diplomatic representation of the country in the Vatican with other European states.
Raúl Domingos, a Mozambican politician and negotiator of the 1992 Rome Peace Agreement, has just been appointed by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, to the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mozambique to the Holy See, the Presidency announced today.
A Press Release issued by the Office of the Presidency of the Republic announces that Filipe Nyusi has dismissed by presidential dispatch Sérgio Nathú Cabá from the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mozambique to the Holy See.
Domingos is the first opposition politician to be appointed to a similar position.
Raul Domingos was a member of the Mozambican National Resistance, the largest opposition political party. He was considered the favourite to succeed the then party leader, Afonso Dhlakama, until he was expelled from Renamo on 7 July 2000.
From 1994 to 1999, he was the chief whip of the Renamo parliamentary group.
In the 2004 presidential election, Raul Domingos ran for President of the Republic by the Party for Peace, Democracy and Development (PDD), receiving 85,815 votes, 2.7% of the total.
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