Angola: MPLA Reiterates Commitment to Angolan Unity

6 September 2022
Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

Maputo — MPLA vice-president Luísa Damião said her party wages a constant struggle to ensure national unity within this political organisation and greater cohesion among Angolans.

The leader of the ruling party in Angola said so Sunday to the press at the end of the third day of the 12th FRELIMO Congress in Maputo, Mozambique, which re-elected Filipe Nyusi to the party's top job.

The politician underlined the fact of the MPLA to have achieved its fifth electoral victory, based on unity and cohesion.

She pledged, at the party level, to maintain the permanent commitment to unity, with a view to "new victories in unity of thought and action".

As for the FRELIMO congress, Luísa Damião said it was quite important, as it strengthens that political party on the Indian Ocean.

Filipe Nyusi re-elected FRELIMO leader

The president of FRELIMO, Filipe Nyusi, was unanimously re-elected on Sunday. The reelection took place during the 12th Congress of the party. Filipe Nyusi was the only candidate.

The event, which started on Friday, is set to end on Wednesday, the day on which the new FRELIMO bodies will be elected, including the Central Committee, which will elect the secretary-general, the political commission and the Verification Committee.

Filipe Nyusi is the fifth president of the FRELIMO party, after Eduardo Mondlane, Samora Machel, Joaquim Chissano, Armando Guebuza.

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