The Mozambican Nationalist Movement () is a
political party
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in
Mozambique
Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...
. In the last
elections
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Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...
for the
Assembly of the Republic held on 1 and 2 December 2004, the party was part of the
Renamo-UE
The RENAMO-Electoral Union (''RENAMO-União Electoral'') is an alliance of political parties in Mozambique, led by the Mozambican National Resistance (''Resistência Nacional Moçambicana'') of Afonso Dhlakama.
In the parliamentary election held ...
electoral alliance, that got 29.7% of the popular vote and 90 out of 250 seats. The presidential candidate of this alliance,
Afonso Dhlakama
Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama (1 January 1953 – 3 May 2018) was a Mozambican politician and the leader of RENAMO, an anti-communist guerrilla movement that fought the FRELIMO government in the Mozambican Civil War before signing a peace ag ...
, got 31.7% of the popular vote.
Nationalist parties in Africa
Political parties in Mozambique
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