Quelimane — The Ninth Congress of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, meeting in the central city of Quelimane, on Monday unanimously elected former president Joaquim Chissano as the Honorary Chairperson of the Party.
The proposal came from the outgoing Central Committee, in a motion which stressed Chissano's commitment to Mozambican nationalism ever since his days as a leader of the Mozambican African Secondary Students' Association (NESAM), The Central committee noted that Chissano had been a founding member of Frelimo in 1962, and had been the personal secretary to the first Frelimo President, Eduardo Mondlane. He had been a member of the top Frelimo leadership since 1963, and had occupied a series of senior positions, as head of the Frelimo Security Department, Prime Minister in the transitional government in 1974-75, Foreign Minister from 1975 to 1986, and then President of the Republic from 1986 to 2005.
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