"Political capital to manage conflict of interest"

There was much anticipation for the first Central Committee (CC) of the Frelimo party led by Filipe Nyusi, as President of the political formation that governs our country for over 40 years. But the meeting last February 5th is for the story to have lasted only one day and limited to restructure the secretariat.

 "We were hoping that would be major reforms, but the indicators that existed did not provide for major reforms, and nor can there be such a major reform" because, according to the teaching of Political Science, João Pereira, President of Mozambique has no political capital to make major reforms within his party. "If I were in the President Nyusi position maybe also do the same thing," says João Pereira in an interview withVerdade and said "instead of making a complete break, he must have made a deep analysis of what was going on there, and he wants to go in a row to put virtually all in the same place, doing games there, because then to break that already exists within the company, with the wounds that this country has in social and economic terms, with indexes so great poverty, with the question of the Renamo party, if he makes another break within the Frelimo I think it will be the end of the President himself Nyusi ". According to assistant professor in the Political Science Department and Public Administration at the University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), "one thing is you get out of a process that by its internal strength to be a natural leader, charismatic, which mobilizes and brings together, another thing is to go out and be done by leading path within the state apparatus, the party networks for ten or twenty years, then you have enough legitimacy to make a deep split within the party. "President Nyusi not leave these leadership profiles," says political scientist who noted that the Mozambican Head of State does not have a school party structure even grown within the state apparatus under their own power, "he (Nyusi) hardly know the functioning of State".

"This journey of leadership that comes from within the party within the party political structure, then proceeds to the State gives enough luggage to person primarily a party and Frelimo and a state as Mozambique, where there is a clear separation between party and state, it gives the possibility of the person creating the political capital that President Nyusi not have to make major reforms within the party "explains João Pereira, who is also Director of the Office of Support Mechanism Management Civil Society (MASC ).Therefore, according to the teaching of Political Science, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi "have to make the management of" ambassadors "of former combatants, those who have to give him the necessary legitimacy to protect you in case of any eventuality. It is no coincidence that we see, the behavioral analysis, Chipande own, while sitting next to the President, he is appearing there. This clearly shows that the whole process. 

" Indeed, during the Second Extraordinary Session of the Party CC Frelimo, Alberto Chipande was sitting on the podium to the left of the party chairman, Filipe Nyusi, who had on his right Eliseu Machava, the secretary-general who inherited Guebuza. On the podium, the three were slightly detached from the remaining members of the Political Committee.

Our interviewee also mentions another important aspect, "while Guebuza and Chissano President had a historical legitimacy, were the foundation of Frelimo, and had developed a very strong political career within the party itself and within the state, had made that whole journey, they had standing to get in there and say this is what is my line of thought. "

João Pereira argues that it is because of this legitimacy that no one questioned the former Mozambican Head of State, and also former president of the Frelimo Party, Armando Guebuza, "he had the legitimacy and political capital necessary to say that it is this line, and from this line, you come or not come. And those who decided they were not going that line came out and he continued on his line. " Os new secretaries elected by the Central Committee held in the city of Matola are Bias (Secretary for Administration and Finance), Augustine Thirty (Secretary for Organization and Training frames), Helena Muando (secretary for the coordination of Social Organizations) Chaquila Abubacar (secretary for economic area) and Antonio Niquice (Secretary for Mobilisation and Propaganda). For Professor of Political Science and Public Administration of EMU, "(...) however much they change things where are the alternatives within their own party Frelimo, who are the Frelimo political elites that can be an alternative to itself, has to be among those ".

After the election of new secretary Filipe Nyusi, the party chairman, he reaffirmed the need for unity, "there are many challenges that await you as secretariat and one of the secrets to face them successfully is the internal cohesion. As we did yesterday, we have to continue to invest in cohesion to meet the challenges of today. "According to João Pereira this gap and appeal to the union speech is a form of the President of Mozambique to try to please all sides who are influential within his party. "I think he (Nyusi) will reach the conclusion that it is not a good dancer to these accommodation games of various interests, and may be lost in this type of conflict. But it also has to do this kind of level of patronage networks games that were developed with the state, I do not know if he can sleep, "concludes the political scientist.