In Mozambique, ruling party submits draft constitutional amendment eliminating obligation to hold district assembly elections in 2024

As promised, Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party has submitted a draft constitutional amendment that will eliminate the obligation to hold elections for district assemblies in 2024. According to the independent television station STV, Frelimo submitted its amendment on [3 May]. Frelimo parliamentary spokesperson Felix Silvia said the amendment sets no timetable, but merely states that district elections will be held "when the conditions are effectively created'. The commitment to hold district elections in 2024 was part of a package of constitutional amendments on decentralization, approved by the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, in 2018, after negotiations between the government and the main opposition party, Renamo. [...] The government set up a 15 member commission on the viability of the district elections (CRED), which reported back last week saying that it would be impossible to hold the elections in 2024. The opposition claimed that CRED was unconstitutional and boycotted it. There is no doubt that the Frelimo constitutional amendment will pass, if is put before the Assembly in mid-June.
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