Elections for the leadership of Mozambique’s Bar Association (OAM) rarely attract much public attention. This time, they should. Four candidates are contesting the position of bastonário. On paper, that might suggest a healthy democratic process. In practice, it raises a more troubling question: whether any of them are prepared to do what the role increasingly demands.
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The outgoing president, Carlos Martins, has set a high bar. Elected on an independent ticket against a candidate seen as aligned with Frelimo, he has used his mandate to position the Bar as a rare institutional voice willing to confront abuses of power. His tenure has been marked less by technical legal interventions than by public stands on issues that many others have preferred to avoid.
