For more than a month, Mozambique has been the scene of demonstrations that have left dozens of people dead. These are protests following the general elections in October and the proclamation of the Frelimo candidate as the winner. Leading the movement to challenge the electoral results has been the opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane.
Contrary to what has happened in recent weeks, especially in Maputo, for New Year’s Eve, the officially defeated presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane is now calling for unity.
The ceremony is scheduled for January 15th and will be to inaugurate the candidate supported by Frelimo, the party in power since Mozambique’s independence and which, according to the country’s Constitutional Council, won the elections on October 9th. Results that Venâncio Mondlane does not accept.
Mondlane has already said that he will soon announce the last phase of the post-election protests that have already caused more than two hundred deaths. He calls it the “spearhead” phase.
This week began with a meeting of the 4 Mozambican opposition parties with the country’s president. In the end, everyone was open to dialogue to reach a social pact that would lead to reforms in Mozambique, a country in search of direction.
