Mozambique: CDD Accuses Podemos Leader of Receiving Enormous Bribe

Maputo — The prominent NGO, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), has accused Albino Forquilha, the leader of PODEMOS (Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique), of receiving 219 million meticais (3.4 million dollars at the current exchange rate) from the ruling Frelimo party in exchange for giving up his demand for “electoral justice.’

Podemos, which is now the country’s largest opposition party with 43 seats in the parliament, backed Venâncio Mondlane as presidential…