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Presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane accused a Mozambican policeman of trying to assassinate him in the Zavala region, in the province of Inhambane, in the south of the country, but the company denied the allegations today. “This is an assassination attempt against the people’s candidate,” Mondlane said in a statement published on the social network Facebook. The politician said that in (…)
Presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane accused a Mozambican policeman of trying to assassinate him in the Zavala region, in Inhambane province, in the south of the country, but the company denied the accusations today.
“This is an assassination attempt on the people’s candidate,” Mondelez said in a statement posted on the social network Facebook.
The politician said he was immobilized and the gun he was carrying with 15 rounds of ammunition was taken away when a plainclothes police officer “suddenly tried” to approach him from behind on Sunday evening.
Mondlane said the weapon was handed over to the local prosecutor’s office by the Alliance for a Democracy (CAD) party, but the officer “escaped.”
“I sent a message to the attorney general’s office, (…) this was clearly a failed assassination attempt,” he added.
In a press conference today, the spokesperson for the Inhambane provincial police dismissed the accusations of Venâncio Mondlane as false and said the officer’s mission was to guarantee security ahead of the CAD campaign.
“On the 9th, for undeniable reasons, the CAA took away the weapon from the officer and accused him of assault, which was not the case,” Bhatta said.
He said the officer was “among the crowds on duty providing security and protection for the march” during the pre-election campaign.
A spokesman for the Inhambane police stressed: “The colleague has been officially selected, his safety has been guaranteed, the candidate is currently in Gaza and the gun is under control.”
Nércia Bata also said that the officer was deployed because the CAD requested protection for Venâncio Mondlane’s pre-election activities.
He added that police were present through mobile patrols, on foot and in plain clothes.
Venâncio Mondlane is running for the presidency of Mozambique as an independent after the Constitutional Council (CC) explicitly ruled out the CAD coalition that was trying to support him in early August.
Mondlane, the candidate of the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (Renamo) for the 2023 municipal elections in the city of Maputo, has abandoned the party of which he has been a member since 2018 and the position of deputy he was elected to after failing to run for the leadership of the largest opposition party at its congress in May.
In addition to Mondlane, those running for Ponta Vermelha (official residence of the Mozambican head of state) include Daniel Chapo, supported by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo de Liberación Mozambique, in power), Ossufo Momade, supported by the Mozambican Resistance, and Lutero Simango, backed by the third parliamentary force, the Mozambican Democratic Movement (MDM).
Mozambique will hold general elections on October 9, including presidential, legislative and provincial elections.
Current President Filipe Nyusi will not take part in the vote because he has reached the constitutional limit of two terms.
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