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Mozambique: FRELIMO party meets to choose presidential nominee
Mozambique’s ruling party – the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) are set to nominate a candidate as its presidential frontrunner in a bid to unify factions that support former Prime Minister Luisa Diogo and ex-Defense Minister Filipe Nyussi.
Incumbent President Armando Guebuza, who will be stepping down as his second and final term comes to an end this October, has endorsed Nyussi, while supporters of his predecessor, former president Joaquim Chissano, have endorsed Ms. Diogo.
This may compel the FRELIMO to nominate a compromise candidate at a meeting ending on March 2 to choose someone else to lead its campaign in October elections.
FRELIMO has led Mozambique since independence from Portugal in 1975. Nyussi and 2 other candidates including Nyussi, former Prime Minister Aires Bonifacio Ali and Luisa Diogo have been contesting for the presidential nomination of their party.
Mozambique is the site of the world’s biggest natural gas discovery in the last decade, and is one of the 7 fastest growing economies on the African continent.