
Candidato presidencial do partido PODEMOS, Venâncio Mondlane, faz um showmicio no bairro Malhampsene na Província de Maputo no âmbito da abertura da campanha eleitoral 2024 . Foto de Santos Vilanculos
Maputo, 23 Sep (AIM) – Venancio Mondlane, the independent candidate in the Mozambican presidential elections scheduled for 9 October, announced on Sunday that he will submit a complaint concerning 40 election crimes to the Attorney-General’s Office (PGR).
These crimes were all supposedly committed by members of the ruling Frelimo Party in the first 20 days of the current election campaign. Some of them are undeniable since they were caught on film – including Frelimo members using ladders to climb up lampposts to remove flags of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM).
This film has circulated widely on Mozambican social media, but the PGR has taken no action. “Nobody has been detained or sued”, accused Mondlane.
He accused the PGR of bias, saying it ignored election offences committed by Frelimo, but never behaved in such a tolerant manner towards similar offences committed by members of opposition parties.
Mondlane promised that, if elected, he will fight against corruption in the education and health services.
Cited by the independent television station STV, he said “We have identified the first great problem in health. It has a lot to do with the mafia, with corruption, with the gang that has taken over procurement in health”.
Mondlane claimed that this “mafia” controls the supply of medicines, and is the real reason why the state cannot reply to the country’s health needs.
The leader and presidential candidate of the main opposition party, Renamo, Ossufo Momade, has promised to stimulate agriculture by creating a fund to support farming activities.
Speaking on Sunday in Alto Maganha, in the central province of Zambezia, Momade promised “to do everything to solve your problems, to create conditions for you to work in agriculture, because agriculture develops the country”.
But this requires incentives for farmers, which a Renamo government would set up “through a fund for those who work the land, so that they have the money to farm and to develop the country”.
He gave no details as to how the proposed fund would work.
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