Good afternoon. The meeting of ruling party Frelimo’s Central Committee that started yesterday could determine how far President Daniel Chapo feels able to push ahead with his reform agenda. At stake are Chapo’s plans, signalled in his inauguration speech, to make the government more efficient and responsive to people’s needs, and to crack down on waste and corruption.
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Together with the constitutional reform agenda which Chapo has agreed to as part of his talks with opposition parties, his reformist mission has the potential to add up to a full-scale assault on Frelimo’s control of state institutions and the corrupt benefits it derives from its dominant position, including the way foreign investors have to negotiate with and buy off party elites. How senior figures in the party react to it is therefore of great importance.
