Thursday, May 8, 2014

NYUSI PROMISES TO CONTINUE THE FRELIMO DREAM


The presidential candidate of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party, former defence minister Filipe Nyusi, declared on Wednesday that he is ready to continue implementing the dream, mission and project of Frelimo, inspired by the four men who have led the party – Eduardo Mondlane, Samora Machel, Joaquim Chissano and the current president, Armando Guebuza.   Speaking at the opening session of a Frelimo National Cadres Meeting (which is an advisory body), in the southern city of Matola, Nyusi said he is relying on the support of all party cadres, since all are important in continuing and consolidating gains and victories for the well-being of the people.  Nyusi added that “cohesion and inclusion begin when we accept that all of us can and should contribute without distrust in the spirit of Unity-Criticism-Unity, and that the cadres of Frelimo, who know their local realities, will at this meeting shape the cornerstones of the project for governance over the next five years”.   About 3,000 Frelimo cadres are attending this meeting. It will analyse the 2009 general elections, and to what extent the Frelimo manifesto for those elections has been implemented. It will also draw up the general lines on which the manifesto for the presidential and parliamentary elections of this year will be drafted, and will contribute to the directives on how Frelimo parliamentary candidates should be selected. 
“For our common project to be successful, we must have greater tolerance and trust among party militants”, said Nyusi. 
He announced that he has already begun a long march across the country in order to listen to Frelimo members and supporter. This had begun in Nwajahane, the birthplace in Gaza province of Frelimo’s founder and first president, Eduardo Mondlane.He had moved on to Chilembene, where Samora Machel, the man who led Frelimo to victory over Portuguese colonialism, and became the country’s first president was born. There he had met with the Machel family and with the local population.Courage and determination were characteristics of Chilembene, he said, “and we consider it a source of human energy with which we intend to comply with the mission of the Frelimo Party to defend our independence and territorial integrity”.Nyusi had then visited Malehice, the home village of Machel’s successor, Joaquim Chissano, where he had found “love for the motherland and the people”. He next intends to visit Guebuza’s birthplace in Murrupula district, in the northern province of Nampula.“The march is long, but I have faith and hope that, by carrying the message of truth, justice, continuity and confidence in change, together we shall score successes”, he declared. “Victory is certain because our cause is just”. 

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