The ruling party in Mozambique, Frelimo has officially announced its candidate for the upcoming presidential elections. As announced by Party chairman and incumbent president, Filipe Nyusi, Francisco Chapo will represent the party in polls come October this year.
Mozambique’s ruling party, Frelimo, has recently announced Daniel Franciso Chapo, a member of its Central Committee, as the party’s candidate in the presidential election in October, state media reported on Monday. Last month, Mozambique’s National Elections Commission (CNE) had highlighted more than 90 percent of the country’s citizens of voting age had already registered for the general elections billed for October.
Within the party, Chapo won 94.1 percent of the votes cast by members of the Frelimo Central Committee of Frelimo at its extraordinary session Sunday night, as per Radio Mozambique.The report stressed President Filipe Nyusi, the Frelimo party chief, chaired three extraordinary sessions of the Central Committee to decide on the candidate.
According to reports, the 47-year-old law graduate was appointed governor of the province of Inhambane in March 2016. Before that, he taught constitutional law and political science.
Chapo who was born in Sofala Province, in 1977, had a master’s degree in development management from the Catholic University of Mozambique. He is Frelimo’s first presidential candidate born after the country’s independence in 1975. The ruling political party has been in power since Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975.
