FRELIMO Party Partido FRELIMO | |
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| Abbreviation | FRELIMO |
| Leader | Filipe Nyusi |
| Secretary-General | Roque Silva Samuel |
| Founders | |
| Founded | 25 June 1962 |
| Merger of | MANU, UDENAMO and UNAMI |
| Headquarters | Dar es Salaam (1962–1975) Maputo (1975–present) |
| Youth wing | Mozambican Youth Organisation |
| Women's wing | Mozambican Women Organisation |
| Veterans' group | Association of Combatants of the National Liberation Struggle |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing[1] Historical: Far-left |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| African affiliation | Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | "Unity, Criticism, Unity"[2] |
| Assembly of the Republic | 184 / 250
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| SADC PF | 0 / 5
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| Pan-African Parliament | 0 / 5
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| Website | |
| www | |
FRELIMO (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɛˈlimu]; from Portuguese: Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, transl. Mozambique Liberation Front[a]) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It has governed the country since its independence from Portugal in 1975.
Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist movement fighting for the self-determination and independence of Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. During its anti-colonial struggle, FRELIMO managed to maintain friendly relations with both the Soviet Union and China, and received military and economic assistance from both. Independence was achieved in June 1975 after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon the previous year. FRELIMO formally became a political party during its 3rd Party Congress in February 1977, and adopted Marxism–Leninism as its official ideology and FRELIMO Party (Partido FRELIMO) as its official name.
FRELIMO has been the ruling party of Mozambique since then, initially as the sole legal party in a one-party system and later as the democratically elected government in a multi-party system. FRELIMO fought a protracted civil war from 1976 to 1992 against the anti-communist Mozambican National Resistance or RENAMO. RENAMO received support from the then white minority governments of Rhodesia and South Africa. FRELIMO approved a new national constitution in 1990, which ended one-party rule and established a multi-party system. FRELIMO has since become the dominant party in Mozambique and has won a majority of the seats in the Assembly of the Republic in every election since the country's first multi-party election in 1994.
- ^ Azevedo, Desirée de Lemos (1 October 2012). "Trajetórias militantes: do Brasil a Moçambique nas redes da esquerda internacional" [Militant trajectories: from Brazil to Mozambique in the networks of the international left]. Etnográfica. Revista do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (in Portuguese). 16 (3): 461–486. doi:10.4000/etnografica.2085. ISSN 0873-6561. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ "Election of FRELIMO Candidate Goes Into the Night". Mozambique News Agency. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
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