By Paul Fauvet
Maputo (MOZTIMES) - The National Alliance for a Free and Autonomous Mozambique (Anamola) on Monday, the final day of its Convention, re-elected former presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane as the Party’s President.
This result was no surprise, since Mondlane was the only candidate. He was elected by the 400 delegates to the Convention, held in the northern city of Nampula. The election was not quite unanimous: according to the Anamola press spokesperson, Abdul Nariz, Mondlane won 94.04 per cent of the votes.
Nonetheless, Nariz added that all the delegates present with the right to vote had voted in favour.
Mondlane founded Anamola in August 2025, and led the party on an interim basis until the Convention.
Nariz said the Convention also discussed the party’s strategic guidelines and elected the Party’s leading bodies, its National Council and Executive Commission.
There is little doubt that Mondlane will be the Anamola candidate for Mozambique’s next presidential elections, scheduled for 2029. Indeed, on the second day of the Convention, he told journalists that he is willing to stand.
According to the official results from the 2024 presidential election, Mondlane came second, beaten only by the candidate of the ruling Frelimo Party, Daniel Chapo, who is now head of state.
Mondlane said the results were massively fraudulent and that, in reality, he had won. It was impossible to check the competing claims from Frelimo and Anamola, since the results, polling station by polling station have never been published, and there was no generally accepted parallel count.
Mondlane also claimed that Anamola is on its way to becoming the country’s largest political party and he expected it to have six million members by the time of the next elections. This would be much the same size as the membership claimed by Frelimo. (PF)
