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Assembly Of The Republic (Mozambique)
The Assembly of the Republic () is the unicameral legislative body of the Mozambique, Republic of Mozambique, established in 1977. The current parliament has 250 members, who are directly elected through a system of party-list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. Parties must receive at least five percent of the vote nationally to gain parliamentary representation. Parliamentary debates and business are conducted entirely in Portuguese language, Portuguese. Three parties are represented in the parliament: FRELIMO, RENAMO and the Democratic Movement of Mozambique. After the 2014 election, RENAMO MPs have refused to take office, since the party considered Mozambican general election, 2014, the electoral act had been Electoral fraud, fraudulent, but they resumed their duties in February 2015. Presidents of the Assembly The President of the Assembly is the second-highest figure in the state hierarchy of Mozambique, and will replace the President of Mozambique in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarida Talapa
Margarida Adamugy Talapa (born 5 June 1962) is a Mozambican politician who has been President of the Assembly of the Republic (Mozambique), Assembly of the Republic since January 2025. Early life Margarida Adamugy Talapa was born in Memba, Nampula Province, on 5 June 1962. She is a member of the Macua ethnic group. Career Talapa joined FRELIMO in 1974, just after the country's Mozambican War of Independence, war of independence ended. She joined the party's youth and women's movements in 1976. She was a member of the first Secretariat of the Mozambican Youth Organisation (OJM) in the District of Member in 1977. In August 1991, she became a member of the Frelimo Central Committee. From 1994, Talapa worked in the provincial and central offices preparing for elections. In 1997, she was elected as a delegate for the party's seventh congress. Talapa was elected to parliament in 2000. She was elected to the central committee of the party and then in February 2010 she was elected to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mozambican General Election, 2014
General elections were held in Mozambique on 15 October 2014. Filipe Nyusi, the candidate of the ruling FRELIMO, was elected president, and FRELIMO retained its parliamentary majority. Electoral system The President was elected using the two-round system. Incumbent President Armando Guebuza was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term. The 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic were elected in 11 multi-member constituencies based on the country's provinces and two single-member constituencies representing Mozambican citizens in Africa and Europe. Seat allocation in the multi-member constituencies was based on proportional representation using the D'Hondt method, with an electoral threshold of 5%. Campaign Presidential candidates Conduct Electoral observers from the European Union stated there were positive aspects: new electoral legislation, a non-disputed voter register and a generally peaceful electoral campaign and an orderly election day, but issues with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Mozambican General Election
General elections were held in Mozambique in 1986. As in the previous election FRELIMO was the sole legal party, but in this election independent candidates could stand as long as they were nominated by FRELIMO. Foreign & Commonwealth Office Direct elections were only held for local and city councils, starting on 15 October.Mozambique Inter-Parliamentary Union These councils then elected District Assemblies by 25 November, which in turn elected Provincial Assemblies by December. 299 candidates stood for election for the 249-seat Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Mozambican General Election
General elections were held in Mozambique in 1977. They were the first elections after independence from Portugal, and FRELIMO was the sole legal party. Direct elections were only held for local and city councils, starting on 25 September. These councils then elected members of their local councils to the District Assemblies, which in turn elected representatives to the Provincial Assemblies. FRELIMO produced a single list of shortlisted candidates for the newly created 226-seat People's Assembly, the country's top legislative body. The candidate list was unanimously adopted by the Provincial Assemblies at their first session. Foreign & Commonwealth Office [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Union (Mozambique)
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Renamo-UE
The RENAMO-Electoral Union (''RENAMO-União Electoral'') is an alliance of political parties in Mozambique, led by the Mozambican National Resistance (''Resistência Nacional Moçambicana'') of Afonso Dhlakama. In the parliamentary election held on 1–2 December 2004, the alliance received 29.7% of the popular vote and won 90 out of 250 seats. Its presidential candidate, Afonso Dhlakama, won 31.7% of the popular vote. Aside from RENAMO, other parties in the alliance are: *Independent Alliance of Mozambique (''Aliança Independente de Moçambique'') *Mozambican Nationalist Movement (''Movimento Nacionalista Moçambicano'') * National Convention Party (''Partido de Convenção Nacional'') *National Unity Party (''Partido de Unidade Nacional'') *Front of Patriotic Action (''Frente de Ação Patriotica'') *People's Party of Mozambique (''Partido Popular de Moçambique'') *United Front of Mozambique The United Front of Mozambique () is a political party in Mozambique. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greens Party Of Mozambique
The Party of Greens of Mozambique (, PVM) is a political party formed in 1997. Before the 1999 elections the party split in two factions over whether to support the RENAMO-Electoral Union. In the 2004 elections the party gained 0.33% of the vote, and in 2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ... the party received 0.50%. In 2023, the leader was Joao Massango. References Political parties in Mozambique Green parties in Africa Political parties established in 1997 {{Mozambique-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esperança Bias
Esperança Bias (born 28 July 1958) is a Mozambican politician. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Economy at the Eduardo Mondlane University. From 1999 to 2005, she served as the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources (beginning in 1999). From 2005 to 2015, she served as Mozambique's Minister of Mineral Resources. In 2015, incoming president Filipe Nyusi replaced her with Pedro Conceição Couto. In February 2016, she was elected to the Secretariat of Mozambique's FRELIMO FRELIMO (; from , ) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It has governed the country since its independence from Portugal in 1975. Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist movement fighting for the self-determination ... party as Secretary for Administration and Finance. She was Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic from January 2020 to January 2025. References 1958 births Living people Presidents of the Assembly of the Republic (Mozambique) Mineral resources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verónica Macamo
Verónica Nataniel Macamo Dlhovo (born November 13, 1957) is a Mozambican politician who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2020. She served as the President of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique from 2010 to 2020. Dlhovo is a member of Frelimo. She started her career as a politician in Gaza Province as a member of Organization of Mozambican Women and got to the peak of her career when she became the first female president of the Assembly since Mozambique gained independence. Early life, education and personal life Veronica Nataniel Macamo Dlhovo was born on 13 November 1957, in Bilene, Gaza Province. She is married and has 3 children. Dlhovo earned a degree in Law from the Eduardo Mondlane University in 1994. Work experience and politics Dlhovo started working for Frelimo even before independence and after Mozambique became independent, she worked in many areas for the party. She has been involved in social work working in the Political Commissi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Mulémbwè
Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to: Association football * Dudu (footballer, born 1992) (Eduardo Pereira Rodrigues), Brazilian footballer * Eduardo (footballer, born 1993) (Carlos Eduardo Bendini Giusti), Brazilian centre back * Eduardo (footballer, born 12 November 1986) (Eduardo da Conceição Maciel), Brazilian forward * Eduardo (footballer, born 20 November 1986) (Carlos Eduardo Santos Oliveira), Brazilian right back * Eduardo (footballer, born 1979) (Eduardo Adelino da Silva), Brazilian footballer * Eduardo (footballer, born 1995) (Eduardo José da Rosa Milhomem), Brazilian defender * Eduardo (footballer, born 1997) (Eduardo Jacinto de Biasi), Brazilian defensive midfielder * Eduardo (footballer, born 2000) (Eduardo da Silva Albuquerque), Brazilian midfielder * Edu Coimbra (Eduardo Antunes Coimbra) (born 1947), Brazilian attacking midfielder and manager * Edu (footballer, born 1981) (Eduardo Gon� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelino Dos Santos
Marcelino dos Santos (20 May 1929 – 11 February 2020) was a Mozambique, Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and politician. As a young man he travelled to Portugal, and France for an education. He was a founding member of the FRELIMO, ''Frente de Libertação de Moçambique'' (FRELIMO—Mozambican Liberation Front), in 1962, and served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977. He was Minister of Economic Development in the late 1970s, Frelimo Political Bureau member in charge of the economy in the early 1980s, Chairman of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, from 1987 to 1994, and, as of 1999, remained a member of the Frelimo Central Committee. He represented the left wing of the party, remaining an avowed Marxism-Leninism, Marxist-Leninist, despite the party's embrace of capitalism in recent decades, an embrace which dos Santos declared was temporary. Under the pseudonyms Kalungano and Lilinho Micaia, he published his early poems in National liberation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samora Machel
Samora Moisés Machel (29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986) was a Mozambique, Mozambican politician and revolutionary. A Socialism, socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in a 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash, plane crash in 1986. Early life Machel was born in the village of Madragoa (today's Chilembene), Gaza Province, Mozambique, to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been an active collaborator of Gungunhana. Under Portuguese Mozambique, Portuguese rule, his father, like most Black Mozambicans, was classified as "indígena" (native). He was forced to accept lower prices for his crops than White farmers; compelled to grow labour-intensive cotton, which took time away from the food crops needed for his family; and forbidden to brand his mark on his cattle to prevent thievery. However, Machel's father was a successful farmer: he owned four plows and 400 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
