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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition party, on Thursday called on the police not to create \u201can environment of terror\u201d in the local elections on 11 October 2023, accusing the corporation of preventing \u201cfree, fair and transparent elections\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not want an environment of terror created by the police in the next elections,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 Manteigas, Renamo spokesman and member of parliament.<\/p>\n

Manteigas was speaking during the session of questions from the parliamentary benches to the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe peace that we are creating should not be jeopardised by appetites, to, at all costs, [Frelimo] perpetuate itself in power,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The spokesman for the main opposition party accused police forces of having a \u201cbloodthirsty\u201d attitude and demonstrating \u201cmuscle\u201d against members of opposition parties, aimed at generating a climate conducive to electoral fraud in favour of the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo).<\/p>\n

The illegal actions of law enforcement officers, he continued, are not limited to election periods, because it is part of their standard of conduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the presuppositions of the rule of law is freedom of expression and demonstration, which clearly and unquestionably has been taken away from Mozambicans, especially since 2015, which represents the dictatorship implanted by the [Frelimo] regime since 1975,\u201d Jos\u00e9 Manteigas said.<\/p>\n

The spokesman also accused the police of killing civilians in the exercise of their rights, citing as an example the death in March of two protesters in the district of Molumbo, in Zambezia province, central Mozambique.<\/p>\n

The victims lost their lives during clashes between the police and local people following a decision by the district authorities to prevent the use of the Malawian currency (kwacha) in the area bordering Malawi.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Mozambique\u2019s Interior Minister, Ars\u00e9nia Massingue, said in parliament that the authorities would hold accountable the police officers who illegally prevented the right to demonstrate, noting that the government did not tolerate the violation of fundamental rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government of Mozambique, in particular the ministry of the interior, does not condone acts of its officers that violate the constitution of the Republic and call into question the rights and freedoms of citizens,\u201d Massingue said.<\/p>\n

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