Maputo — Some senior figures in Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party are putting a brave face on the decision by Central Committee member Samora Machel Junior ("Samito"), the son of the country's first president, to run as an independent in the forthcoming municipal elections.
Machel had hoped to be the Frelimo candidate for mayor of Maputo - but when he was excluded from the short list of three potential candidates drawn up by the Frelimo Maputo City leadership, he accepted the invitation from "Ajudem" (Youth Association for the Development of Mozambique) , a coalition of civil society organisations, to become its mayoral candidate.
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