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Mozambique: Renamo Dissidents Call for Dhlakama's Ousting
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
16 January 2008
Posted to the web 16 January 2008
Maputo
A group of dissidents from Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, who call themselves the Renamo National Salvation Junta (JNSR), are urging the party to throw out its current leader, Afonso Dhlakama, and replace him with the mayor of Beira, Daviz Simango, reports Wednesday's issue of the Maputo weekly "Magazine Independente" (MI).
A JNSR leaflet is circulating in Beira, claiming that the Junta was set up in January 2006 by a group of founder members of Renamo, including people who were generals in Renamo's army during the war of destabilisation. It also claims that some current and former Renamo parliamentary deputies have joined the Junta, but does not name them.
The leaflet says the JNSR was formed because Dhlakama led Renamo to three successive general election defeats, because of lack of transparency in the use of party funds, and because of the irregular expulsion from the party of senior Renamo figures.
The JNSR leaflet declares that only by replacing Dhlakama with Simango can Renamo have any chance of winning a presidential election. It urges all Renamo bodies to remove Dhlakama, and ensure that a Renamo congress "is held as soon as possible to elect a new leader, since with Dhlakama at the helm of Renamo, we shall never win elections".
This leaflet has clearly worried the Renamo leadership. The Sofala provincial Renamo delegate, Fernando Mbararano, and Moises Machava, a member of the Renamo Defence and Security Council, told MI that Simango ought to dissociate himself completely from the leaflet.
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"We are concerned by the silence of Daviz Simango", they said. "He should appear in public, and dismiss this leaflet". They thought it a serious matter that Simango's name was being used by people they called "puppets" of the ruling Frelimo Party.
But when MI contacted the mayor, he stressed that he had nothing to do with the JNSR, and reaffirmed his loyalty to Dhlakama. He lamented that his name was being used "to sow intrigues" within Renamo.
On previous occasions, Dhlakama himself has called the JNSR a "political prostitute", alleging that it was set up by his enemies in Frelimo and in the country's third largest party the PDD (Party for Peace Democracy and Development). The PDD was set up by Raul Domingos, the former head of the Renamo parliamentary group, who was expelled from Renamo in 2000.
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