On Sunday, May 5, the second opposition party, MDM (Democratic Movement of Mozambique), announced that it had chosen as its presidential candidate Lutero Simango, head of its parliamentary group and brother of party founder Daviz Simango (who died of Covid in 2021). The other candidate was the mayor of Beira, Albano Carige, who withdrew. Renamo has not yet chosen its candidate, but will do so at a congress from 15 to 16 May, in Zambézia. Afonso Dhlakama led Renamo from 1979 during the war that ended in 1992, until he died of illnesses related to diabetes, on May 3, 2018. Former guerrilla Ossufo Momade – and current President – was elected at a congress at the Renamo base in Gorongosa, on January 17, 2019, for a five-year term, which some say has already expired. Renamo has two dynamic young people, Manuel de Araújo, who is president of the municipality of Quelimane, and Venâncio Mondlane, who was elected president of the municipality of Maputo last year, but his victory was rejected by the Constitutional Council. Ossufo Momade, to be named presidential candidate next week, is marginalizing Mondlane and Araújo and could prevent them from participating in Congress. Lutero Simango and Ossufo Momade are much weaker activists than their predecessors and are being challenged by younger, more dynamic local leaders. But it appears both leaders are content to remain official opposition parties. The MDM is effectively a family party that has successfully conquered and governs Beira, and seems happy to stay that way. The younger generation in Renamo wants the party to be a political opposition to Frelimo today, and not the guerrilla opposition of three decades ago. But Momade seems happy to be leader of the opposition, receiving significant money from the government. Neither MDM nor Renamo leaders see their parties as an opposition that can win, while younger members say “we were born after the war and we want to be an opposition that can beat Frelimo”. (JH) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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