Frelimo SG confirms that Filipe Nyusi will run for 3rd term as party chief – A Verdade

Roque Silva clarified that the nomination of the Frelimo party candidate for the 2024 General Elections “is not on the Congress agenda”. [Image: A Verdade]

The Secretary-General of the Frelimo Party Roque Silva confirmed this Wednesday (21-09) the announcement by @Verdade that Filipe Nyusi will run for a third term as president of the party that has governed Mozambique since 1975.

Asked by @Verdade at a press conference within the scope of preparations for the 12th Frelimo Congress who the candidates were, Roque Silva made it clear: “Regarding the candidate for president of the party, I can safely say that the candidate is Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, president of Frelimo and beloved member of the 60-year-old party.”

Elected for the first time in 2015, a year after being elected President of Mozambique and after Armando Guebuza’s resignation, Nyusi is expected to be re-elected unanimously.

Roque Silva clarified that the nomination of the Frelimo party candidate for the 2024 General Elections “is not on the Congress agenda”.

Regarding the Magna meeting of the ‘comrades’ that starts next Friday (23), and is the finale of the process started in the party cells on June 23, the Frelimo Party SG pointed out that “for the first time, it covered a level that did not previously exist in the party structure – that of the locality, with the creation of locality committees and their leaders”.

Silva said that the agenda of the meeting “has to do with the approval of instruments that will guide the party in the next five years, namely the revision of the party’s statutes, in order to adapt them to some current dynamics, we will analyse and approve in Congress.

 The party’s program for the next five years, we will debate and approve at the party level a new component that in previous statutes was not very practical, which is the introduction of some innovations that will allow us to value those who represent Frelimo’s historical heritage for having been the labourers in the construction of our party”.

“The election of a new Central Committee, which will then have the responsibility to elect the Secretary General, will have the responsibility to elect the new secretariat of the Central Committee, will have the responsibility to elect the new Verification Committee” are other items on the agenda of the Congress enumerated by the Frelimo SG.

Silva also revealed that the Congress would bring together “about 2,000 participants, of whom about 1,500 will be delegates and 500 guests. Of these guests, we want to highlight those coming from 24 political parties and friendly organizations around the world”.

By Adérito Caldeira.

From A Verdade