35 parties standing for parliament

Maputo, 18 Jul (AIM) – Mozambique’s National Elections Commission (CNE) announced on Thursday that it has approved lists of candidates from 35 political parties for the parliamentary elections scheduled for 9 October.

The parties approved are as follows, arranged in the order they presented their nomination papers to the CNE:

PEMO (Ecology Party of Mozambique);
MONARUMO (National Movement for the Recovery of Mozambican Unity);
PAREDE (Party of Reconciliation of Mozambique);
PUN (National Unity Party);
MPD (Patriotic Movement for Democracy);
UM (Union for Change);
PLD (Party of Freedom and Development);
UNAMO (Mozambique National Union);
MRM (Movement of Reconciliation of Mozambique);
PAHUMO (Humanitarian Party of Mozambique);
PT (Labour Party);
PARESO (Social Renewal Party);
MJRD (Youth Movement for the Restoration of Democracy)
PDM (Party for the Development of Mozambique);
PPPM (Party for the Progress of the Mozambican People);
PANAMO/CRD (Mozambican National Party);
PPD (Popular Democratic Party);
PANAOC (National Party of Workers and Peasants);
UDM (Union of Democrats of Mozambique);
PADELIMO (Democratic Liberal Party of Mozambique);
AMUSI (Action Party of United Development for All-round Salvation);
CDU (Congress of United Democrats);
PASOMO (Social Broadening Party)
MDM (Mozambique Democratic Movement);
Frelimo;
PARENA (National Reconciliation Party);
RENAMO (Mozambique National Resistance);
PEC-MT (Ecologist Party – Land Movement);
PJDM (Party of Democratic Justice of Mozambique);
ND (New Democracy);
PVM (Green Party of Mozambique);
PDD (Party of Peace, Democracy and Development);
PODEMOS (Party of Optimistic People for the Development of Mozambique);
PRDS (Party of Social Democratic Reconciliation);
RD (Democratic Revolution