Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Look, that may be it ...


Guebuza finishes his second and final term as head of state in 2014, and the party will have to find a consensus figure to replace him in that position. The Xth Congress decided last September not the presidential candidate. In the center of the movement for succession arises again and with some justification, the name of Joaquim Alberto Chipande figure as consensus candidate for the party's presidential Ace 2014. The probable candidacy Chipande is also partly related to the Frelimo initiative to introduce some amendments to the Constitution, a scenario in which they will want to reduce substantially the executive powers of the President, which are likely to be shared with a First Executive Minister, representing the party with the parliamentary majority that Frelimo believes to be within reach.The plan is to have a president who is head of state, is above party political interests, with a Prime Minister who is actually the head of government with jurisdiction to indicate figures for the government and respond directly before parliament. The Head of State will continue to be the Commander in Chief of the forces of defense and security, but at the same time sharing with the Prime Minister the responsibilities of conducting foreign policy. Moreover, there is a strong feeling within the Frelimo party and that State are dominated by people from the south, and that 2014 would mark the end of this hegemony, with the candidacy of an individual center or north. The emergence of the candidature of Chipande, now 72, seems to have been a compromise reached to avoid further tensions within Frelimo, which is increasingly noticeable decline of charisma with the current President took office in 2005. The wing Chipande will tax their supremacy to those who understand that Guebuza President should be the last generation of September 25 ... although the continuous visibility of biologist Maria da Luz Guebuza, First Lady, former combatant, natural central province of Manica can be another asset.

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