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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 18:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique’s main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has accused the breakaway Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) of entering into a strategic alliance with the ruling Frelimo Party.
Interviewed by the newsheet “Canal de Mocambique” in the northern city of Nampula, where he has been living for most of the past year, Dhlakama based his claims of a tacit alliance between Frelimo and the MDM on the vote of confidence given to the government’s five year programme last week by MDM parliamentarian Lutero Simango.
This, for Dhlakama, was evidence of a plot between the MDM and Frelimo, aimed at destroying Renamo and its leadership. (In fact, the MDM’s support for the government programme was highly qualified, and when the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, voted on the programme on Monday, the MDM chose to abstain).
Dhlakama said he was not taken by surprise at the MDM’s support for government proposals. “This strategy was put together before the elections, to allow the MDM to elect some deputies, and Daviz Simango (Mayor of Beira and leader of the MDM) to some second in the presidential election, completely eliminating Renamo”, he claimed.
This conspiracy theory makes no sense at all, since in fact Simango came third, and the National Elections Commissions (CNE) only allowed the MDM to stand in four of the 13 parliamentary constituencies.
Dhlakama also claimed that Daviz Simango has a criminal record. He claimed that Simango had been hauled “so many times” before Beira prosecutors that “under normal conditions he shouldn’t be heading the MDM and the Beira municipality. But he’s at ease, because Frelimo needs him, and he’s helping Frelimo’s strategy”.
Another remarkable claim by Dhlakama was that Renamo only managed to elect 51 deputies “thanks to the threats I made, saying that I would set the country on fire”.
In fact, those threats were made on the night of 29 October, 24 hours after polls had closed, and after the primary count at the polling stations had finished. Thus nothing Dhlakama said then could have had any impact on the results.
Ever since 29 October, Dhlakama has been promising demonstrations against the election results. He assured “Canal de Mocambique” that he is still preparing the demonstrations. “Mozambique is such a vast country, and with difficulties of access. It has 128 districts, and we want to involve them all”, he said.
For this “strong and effective organisation” and “raising awareness among the people” were necessary, he added.
After the November 2008 municipal elections, in which Renamo lost all the five municipalities it had once controlled, Dhlakama promised to swear his defeated candidates into office as parallel mayors. So far not a single Renamo parallel mayor has been sworn into office.
After Renamo crushing defeat in the October general elections, Dhlakama ordered all 51 Renamo deputies not to take their seats in parliament. They all defied him and took their seats.
Dhlakama’s grandiose plans for demonstrations in every district will doubtless meet the same fate, as they smash against the rocks of reality.
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Original date published: 6 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004060957.html?viewall=1