Good afternoon. Mozambique’s ruling party Frelimo and its largest opposition party, Renamo, are both struggling with their choice of candidate for the presidential election in October (see below). For Frelimo, the problem seems to be to come up with a candidate agreeable to both outgoing president Filipe Nyusi and to Frelimo leaders (there is not expected to be a genuine contest, but rather, one preferred candidate and two paper candidates are to be selected by the Political Commission and then voted on by the Central Committee). For Renamo, the problem is to have a contest at all, since current leader Ossufo Momade has been trying to stay on as the candidate, in the face of increasing opposition.
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