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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 01:00:25 Posted By: News Poster
Maputo – The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Monday approved the government’s programme for the five year period 2010-2014, which was debated last week.
The resolution approving the programme was passed by the 186 votes from the ruling Frelimo Party, while the 47 members present from the former rebel movement Renamo all voted against. The eight deputies from the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) abstained.
Initially the resolution, drafted by the Assembly’s Plan and Budget Commission (CPO), said that the parliament approved the programme, “taking into account the recommendations contained in the written opinions of the specialist commissions and resulting from the debate in the Assembly plenary”.
Renamo complained that this gave no indication of which suggestions thrown up during the plenary the government was accepting and which it was rejecting. Had the programme been rewritten to take account of the debate? If so, no new text had been distributed.
Saimone Macuiane insisted that a new version of the programme should be brought to the plenary, “otherwise this is just a blank cheque for the government”.
Frelimo deputy Moreira Vasco solved this problem, by moving an amendment that simply eliminated all reference to last week’s debate and to the opinions of the commissions. This amendment was accepted by Frelimo and rejected by both opposition groups.
As happens with every government plan presented to the Assembly, Renamo moved a wrecking amendment, which would have replaced the words “the Assembly approves”, by “the Assembly rejects”.
Renamo deputy Antonio Timba claimed that “all public tenders are won by companies linked to government members”, but did not cite a single example. He also alleged harassment of opposition members working in the state apparatus, and that “people who don’t join Frelimo are not promoted to senior positions”.
Frelimo deputy Alfredo Gamito, dismissed the Renamo amendment as “just a diversion”, a childish game that Frelimo found unacceptable.
“They move the same amendment to all the government plans!” he exclaimed. “We hoped that Renamo had grown up, but it’s still the same”.
Jose Samo Gudo claimed there was a lack of specific deadlines and targets in the programme (though in reality it is full of them). He said the programme did not deal with “political harassment in public institutions”, and attacked the continued existence of Frelimo Party branches within state bodies.
Samo Gudo made what has become a standard parliamentary genuflection towards Renamo Leader Afonso Dhlakama, describing him as “the architect of democracy and the defender of human rights and peace” – the same Afonso Dhlakama whom Samo Gudo and all other Renamo deputies disobeyed when they took their seats in the Assembly, and ignored the boycott Dhlakama had ordered.
The wrecking amendment went down to defeat by 186 votes to 47, with the eight MDM members abstaining.
The passage of the five year programme clears the way for the Assembly to debate and pass the 2010 plan and budget later this month.
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Original date published: 5 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004051119.html?viewall=1