Mozambique: Mondlane Breaks Off Relations With Podemos

Maputo — The office of Mozambique’s former presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane has announced that it is breaking all ties with Podemos (Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique).

Podemos supported Mondlane’s bid for the Presidency, but Mondlane now regards Podemos leader, Albino Forquilha, as “a traitor’ because he disobeyed Mondlane’s order that Podemos should not take up its seats in the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic.

A Tuesday press release from the…