Good afternoon. The infighting in the CTA, Mozambique’s largest business association, over the election of its next president draws attention to the many problems in that organisation. In many ways, they are the same problems faced by Mozambique generally, just on a smaller scale.
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Like Mozambique, democratic elections are frowned upon in the CTA. CTA presidents prefer to choose their own successor, and outgoing president Agostinho Vuma is seeking to do this with his choice of Lineu Candieiro, a relatively young candidate without much of a track record, whom many CTA members see as a stooge of Vuma. Happily for Vuma, Candeeiro is currently the only candidate, since his opponent, Álvaro Massingue, has been disqualified for alleged election interference. But it would be wrong to paint Massingue as the outsider. In fact, he was previously close to Vuma; the two just seem to have fallen out. Vuma and both his would-be successors are connected to the ruling Frelimo party; indeed Vuma is an elected Frelimo member of parliament, although he has ceded his seat in order to focus on his job at the CTA.
