adminAlthough so far there is so sign of the parallel government which Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the opposition party Renamo, promised to establish in six northern and central provinces in March, a prominent Renamo parliamentary deputy, Jose Manteigas, recently insisted that “Renamo will govern in the provinces where it won”.
Speaking in parliament Manteigas declared “Renamo governance is coming”. He pledged the takeover would be “a peaceful transfer without violence”, and urged Frelimo to cooperate. Despite the threats, Manteigas insisted “Renamo has no plan to divide the country”.
His speech was met with rapturous applause from the Renamo benches, but the Frelimo deputies regarded it as an assault against the Mozambican state.
The spokesperson for the Frelimo parliamentary group, Edmundo Galiza-Matos Junior, told AIM “we feel indignant. We feel this is a provocation against a democratically established state. All Mozambicans should be indignant”.
But Galiza-Matos said Frelimo has no plans to ask for Manteigas’s parliamentary immunity to be lifted, so that he can be prosecuted for incitement to rebellion. — AIM
“Renamo governance is coming”
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