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Mozambique: RENAMO National Council in the Context of Internal Crisis

The deadlines for summoning RENAMO's internal bodies have been successively exceeded, under the pretext of the health situation created by Covid-19, coinciding with the internal dispute.

Several incidents have involved the party's official structures, such as provincial and municipal political delegates being expelled by the population whenever they try to gather or summon the inhabitants, pointing to a growing distance between the bases and the current RENAMO leadership, revealed by the poor elections results of OCT.2019, which the party claimed were fraudulent, but ending up taking the seats in parliament. READ MORE