{"id":57799,"date":"2024-03-22T22:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president"},"modified":"2024-03-23T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T00:01:06","slug":"mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Elections: Renamo announces Congress in May to elect party president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the country\u2019s main opposition party, today announced the holding of the Congress, between May 15th and 16th, to elect the next president of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Saimone Macuiane, a Renamo lawyer, made the announcement at the Maputo City Judicial Court, as part of an agreement with deputy Vena\u0302ncio Mondlane, who filed an injunction demanding that the party leadership set the elective congress dates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reached an agreement regarding the scheduling of the congress. The Renamo congress will take place between the 15th and 16th of May,\u201d lawyer Saimone Macuiane told the judge in the case, brought by Mondlane on February 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want a strong party, for the good of the nation and Mozambican society, these are the wishes of Renamo members,\u201d Macuiane declared.<\/p>\n<p>The Renamo lawyer said that an office would be created to prepare for the congress.<\/p>\n<p>In his intervention during the hearing, Vena\u0302ncio Mondlane, who again today expressed his intention to run for president of the party, asked the court to include in the minutes of the judicial agreement that all members of the party freely could carry out their activities, pointing out that there is evidence limiting \u201cpolitical freedom\u201d of members who intend to run for president of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not want there to be an impediment to political freedom,\u201d Mondlane emphasized, also urging \u201cequal treatment\u201d of all candidates for Renamo leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The Renamo lawyer agreed to the demands, but stressed that the activists\u2019 actions must be \u201cin accordance with the statutes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mondlane reiterated to Lusa that he intends to run for president of Renamo, because the party needs \u201creform and modernization, to become a winner\u201d, having never won elections since 1994, the year in which universal suffrage was instituted in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>Mondlane said that only the next party congress can decide whether the elected president will also be a candidate for the country\u2019s October 9 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an issue that will be determined by the congress itself,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe terms and conditions of the candidate\u201d would then be established.<\/p>\n<p>A Renamo source said that it will be up to the party\u2019s national council to confirm the dates for the next main meeting and announce the meeting location.<\/p>\n<p>The Judicial Court of the City of Maputo had already banned the current president of Renamo, Ossufo Momade, from carrying out \u201cstructuring acts\u201d, on the grounds that the leader of the organization is technically out of office, in compliance with another precautionary measure brought by Vena\u0302ncio Mondlane.<\/p>\n<p>Renamo has been led by Ossufo Momade since the death of Afonso Dhlakama in May 2018, but the mandate of the party\u2019s bodies expired on January 17. Even so, at the time, the party\u2019s spokesperson, Jose\u0301 Manteigas, named Ossufo Momade as a candidate, in the October general elections, for the position of President of the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Even without an elective congress or meeting of the national commission called, three activists have already announced that they intend to run for the leadership of Renamo, in a year in which Mozambique holds general elections, including presidential ones: the deputy and former candidate for the Maputo municipality, Vena\u0302ncio Mondlane, the son of the party\u2019s historic leader, Elias Dhlakama, and former deputy Juliano Picardo.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Quelimane, Manuel de Arau\u0301jo, said he was studying the possibility of entering the race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/venamondlane\/posts\/pfbid0gDJLjTXUMK8oFZBrJvinfKsgoPF7HRrYtZtCSResLsACC3zcGkefH7teRq65zP5al\">Facebook Post click here<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/RENAMOUNIDA\/posts\/pfbid02A8EKRoiYWAecSJMeWGUA42qDBFVyRUMDvXHXHrUSNXmAfMY2j1XdXskzQ1Xb7NHbl\">Facebook Post click here<\/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 Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the country\u2019s main opposition party, today announced the holding of the Congress, between May 15th and 16th, to elect the next president of the organisation. Saimone Macuiane, a Renamo lawyer, made the announcement at the Maputo City Judicial Court, as part of an agreement with deputy Vena\u0302ncio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-57799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mozambique Elections: Renamo announces Congress in May to elect party president - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the country\u2019s main opposition party, today announced the holding of the Con ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mozambique Elections: Renamo announces Congress in May to elect party president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the country\u2019s main opposition party, today announced the holding of the Con ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-22T22:30:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-23T00:01:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2024\/03\/sm_1711135572.814864.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"933\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"557\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mozambique Elections: Renamo announces Congress in May to elect party president\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-22T22:30:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-23T00:01:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president\"},\"wordCount\":595,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2024\/03\/sm_1711135572.814864.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-elections-renamo-announces-congress-in-may-to-elect-party-president\",\"name\":\"Mozambique Elections: Renamo announces Congress in May to elect party president - 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