The Secretary-General of Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), Ismael Mussa, on Friday confirmed his resignation from that position in the country’s second largest opposition party.Mussa was appointed March last year as MDM secretary-general.'I submitted my resignation to the party leadership. The process is still running and I would not like to comment now on the reasons behind that decision. I promise to explain everything to the last detail once everything is over”, said Mussa cited on Saturday’s issue of the daily paper “Noticias”. Mussa, however, explained that this decision does not mean that he will leave the party, stressing that he would continue his activism in the party, and keep his seat in the Assembly of the Republic, the Mozambican parliament.He also pointed out that there is poor environment within the party, stressing that he was not the only one wishing to quit the governing bodies of MDM. 'Everything points that Joao Colaço, member of the Secretariat of the party, and Dionisio Quelhas, member of Strategic Planning Board, also have expressed their desire to quit from those positions,' he said.Mussa refused to make further comments, promising to release further details next week. News about Mussa’s resignation and his replacement by Bernabé Nkomo were brought to the public by the independent weekly “Savana”.Bernabé Nkomo is the author of a biography Urias Simango, MDM’s president’s father, once the deputy president of Frelimo, but accused of treason and executed after independence. Mussa is a university lecturer, and holds one of the eight parliamentary seats won by the MDM in last October’s parliamentary elections. Like most of the core leadership of the MDM, Mussa was once a member of the main opposition party, Renamo. He resigned from Renamo in May 2009.
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