Good afternoon. In all the post-election negotiations, talks, recriminations, and promises of reforms, it was easy to forget that work had already been put in place by the last government to look into alternative ways of distributing power in Mozambique.
But last week, a commission set up by the Nyusi government as a sop to the opposition after it reneged on a commitment to hold elections for district administrators, submitted a report on possible new models for decentralisation.
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The report was submitted to the government and has not been made public, but O País has seen at least some of it, and reports that it puts forward four possible models — ranging from elections at the Administrative Post, i.e. village, level, through district and provincial level elections to the possibility of devolution to regional governments, which it reportedly describes as a system of federal states.
