Mozambique's Ruling Party, FRELIMO, Chooses Daniel Chapo To Run For President
Mozambique’s ruling party, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) has elected Daniel Francisco Chapo, governor of the province of Inhambane, as the party’s presidential candidate in the general elections on 09 October 2024, reported by the Club of Mozambique.
Chapo was elected by 225 out of the 254-member FRELIMO Central Committee, as stated in the final communiqué of the meeting.
Chapo (47), will replace FRELIMO leader, Filipe Nyusi, who is also the President Of Mozambique. Nyusi can no longer run for office in these elections, as he has reached the constitutional limit of two terms.
He becomes the first “born free” FRELIMO presidential candidate, as he was born two years after Mozambique’s independence from Portugal in 1975.
Who is Daniel Francisco Chapo?
According to the Club of Mozambique, Chapo was born in Inhaminga, Sofala province, central Mozambique, on January 6, 1977.
Chapo graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, in 2000.
He took the Conservator and Notary course in 2004 and ten years later completed a master’s degree in Development Management from the Catholic University of Mozambique.
He also taught Constitutional Law and Political Science, worked as an announcer at Rádio Miramar, in the city of Beira, and was appointed conservator for the Nacala-Porto district in 2005.
In November 2015 he assumed the role of administrator of the district of Palma, in the province of Cabo Delegado, and in March 2016 he was appointed governor of the province of Inhambane.
Mozambique will hold its seventh presidential and parliamentary elections on October 9, the second for provincial governors and the fourth for provincial assemblies.
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