Maputo — Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party has strongly condemned the threats by the main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, that it will send armed men to the polling stations during next Wednesday's municipal election to block alleged Frelimo fraud.
On Thursday, in a message sent from the Renamo military base in the central district of Gorongosa, the interim coordinator of the Renamo Political Commission, Ossufo Momade, claimed that Frelimo had hatched a plan to steal the elections, and that the Renamo militia (whom he called "rangers") could intervene to stop it.
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