Good afternoon. Venâncio Mondlane, the de facto leader of Mozambique’s political opposition, has announced his intention to set up a new political party. Will this force Frelimo and the government of Daniel Chapo to take him seriously as a political player?
Mondlane is the de facto leader of the opposition, by dint of having come second in the presidential election last October (if he didn’t, as he and many observers claim, in fact win it). But he is also pretty much the only active opposition politician; the leaders of Mozambique’s opposition parties currently have little to say in public, and are participating in ‘dialogue’ with the government, which is probably only really for show.
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Mondlane has now definitively broken with Podemos, the party which supported his presidential candidacy and whose parliamentary candidacies Mondlane supported. No longer will Mondlane support such freeloaders, he says.
