{"id":52522,"date":"2023-12-20T21:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/renamo-disrupts-presidents-state-of-the-nation-address"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T22:16:03","slug":"renamo-disrupts-presidents-state-of-the-nation-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/renamo-disrupts-presidents-state-of-the-nation-address","title":{"rendered":"Renamo disrupts President\u2019s State of the Nation Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The parliamentary bench of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition force, booed and momentarily interrupted the Mozambican head of state during his annual State of the Nation address in parliament today.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in black shirts sporting slogans rejecting what they call a \u201cmega-fraud\u201d in the October 11 local elections, the deputies of the main opposition party turned their backs on the head of state when the president of parliament, Esperanc\u0327a Bias, called him to give his report.<\/p>\n<p>Shouting and singing party songs, the Renamo deputies booed Filipe Nyusi, demanding the restoration of \u201celectoral truth\u201d and calling the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the party in power, \u201cthieves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want electoral truth,\u201d shouted the deputies during Filipe Nyusi\u2019s speech, despite Esperanc\u0327a Bias\u2019 protestations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrufufa, Trufufa, it\u2019s Renamo that\u2019s passing. But it\u2019s Renamo who won,\u201d sang the deputies, an excerpt from that party\u2019s song that went viral during these elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people are listening and we will continue,\u201d Filipe Nyusi said after briefly interrupting his speech, a situation that occurred at least three times. In fact, the Renamo deputies\u2019 protest made it almost impossible to hear Filipe Nyusi\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>Renamo has been leading protests across the country against what it calls mega-fraud in the October 11 local elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Council (CC), the body of last instance of electoral justice with competence to validate elections in Mozambique, proclaimed on 24 November Frelimo the winner of the local elections in 56 municipalities, against the previous 64, with Renamo winning four, and ordered elections to be repeated in four others.<\/p>\n<p>The streets of some Mozambican cities, including Maputo, were taken over by consecutive opposition demonstrations against what they consider to have been a \u201cmega-fraud\u201d in the local elections process and the results announced by the CNE, also criticised by civil society and non-governmental organisations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/radiopax103\/videos\/744594680566727\/\"><b>video<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/SalaDaPaz\/posts\/pfbid04XVpjokTTxPdwZkJzJbE9dFeAJj6GmKuZvxH4ttqff1Wo8dwDoEwdCQZQVxpe3Jtl\"><b>Facebook Post click here<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. The parliamentary bench of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition force, booed and momentarily interrupted the Mozambican head of state during his annual State of the Nation address in parliament today. 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