The
visit that the Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, began this Monday
to Mozambique is being closely monitored and with a lot of interest in
Portugal, deserving highlights especially in local televisions, such as RTP,
public, and SIC, private.Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa arrived Monday in Maputo for a
five-day visit. Apart from attending the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday of 
the re-elected president of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, the Portuguese head of
state should also visit the city of Beira, the capital of Sofala province, in
the center of the country. , which was devastated by cyclone Idai last year. At
Maputo airport, the Portuguese President was greeted with military honors by
the Mozambican Foreign Minister José Pacheco.
On
arrival, Marcelo highlighted 'the unique brotherhood links with Mozambique'.
On
Tuesday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will be in Maputo to visit the Portuguese
School of Maputo. At the end of the day, he is still
in the Mozambican capital
with members of the Portuguese community. Between 23 and 25 thousand Portuguese
live in Mozambique.Wednesday's program is filled with the inauguration of
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, to whom several heads of state and
government are expected, with a bilateral meeting between Marcelo and Nyusi in
the afternoon. Nyusi, who is also president of Frelimo, the ruling party in
Mozambique, was reelected in the first round in the general elections held on
15 October 2019, gathering 73 percent of the vote. Already on Thursday, Rebelo
de
Sousa travels to the city of Beira. He is expected to visit the Consulate
General of Portugal and Beira Central Hospital, which was razed by cyclone Idai
in March last year. Cyclone Idai has killed more than 600 people and destroyed
various infrastructures in the city and the central region itself.
On
Friday, back in Maputo, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will meet with the
Technical-Military Cooperation team. This week, the President's busy agenda
will feature 'meetings with representatives of Mozambican political parties
with parliamentary seat, with political personalities, from the world of
culture and representatives of major religious communities'.
On
Saturday morning, the President of the Republic returns to Portugal. Remember
that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa considers Mozambique as his 'second homeland'
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