Africa Monitor Intelligence
Mozambique: Nyusi´s “Wild Card” for the Presidential Elections
The internal movements go in the direction of collecting and purchasing internal support among potential candidates and there is no internal consensus. Several figures from FRELIMO have come to publicly criticise the current state of the party, the last of which the former PM under the presidency of AG, ALBERTO VAQUINA, also pre-candidate defeated in 2014. The Association of Liberation Fighters of Mozambique (ACLIN), a FRELIMO satellite organisation led by FERNANDO FAUSTINO, has also assumed the intention to launch its own candidate, and the choice may fall on reserve general ANTÓNIO HAMA THAI. READ MORE