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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 13, 2015 20:26:28 GMT -5
It can be done... news.yahoo.com/mozambiques-renamo-boycotts-parliament-threatens-secession-003552415.htmlMozambique's Renamo boycotts parliament and threatens secessionMaputo (AFP) - Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo on Monday boycotted the opening of parliament in protest at last October's election results as its leader threatened to create a parallel government. Afonso Dhlakama has refused to accept the results of the elections won by the ruling Frelimo, claiming widespread irregularities and fraud. He is threatening to create a parallel government in the central and gas-rich northern regions of the country. "Renamo will form provincial governments in six provinces (out of 11), and I, Afonso Dhlakama, will become the president of central and northern Mozambique," Dhlakama said during a weekend meeting in the central Beira province. Once backed by neighbouring South Africa's apartheid government, anti-communist Renamo -- the Mozambican National Resistance -- waged a 16-year war against Frelimo before signing a peace deal in 1992. It ended a recently renewed low-level insurgency just weeks ahead of the election. Frelimo (the Mozambique Liberation Front), in power since independence from Portugal in 1975, has won all the previous elections and has retained the majority in the latest vote taking 144 out of 250 seats in the National Assembly. All of Renamo's 89 lawmakers stayed away from the inauguration of the parliament in Maputo, an AFP reporter witnessed.
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