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- Title
"RESISTÊNCIA NACIONAL MOÇAMBICANA", DE LA VICTOIRE À LA DÉROUTE.
- Authors
Cahen, Michel
- Abstract
The Resistência Nacional Mocambicana (Renamo), after being supported by the Apartheid regime, became legitimate as a political party during the first plural elections (1994) in getting 35% of the votes. After a significant progress until 1999, it started to decline to get only 16 % of the votes in the October 2009 general elections in the midst of serious internal crisis. Does its poor capacity to develop a credible political opposition come from the military nature of its leadership? Does the meaning of the vote represent allegiance or support in the context of increasing neo-patrimonial practices due to a gradual merging of the state and the Frelimo, the party which has been assuming power since 1994? Eventually, regional unbalances in the country ham per the creation of a third political force which would be able to grow only if it seized the social basis of the Renamo.
- Subjects
MOZAMBIQUE; RENAMO (Organization); APARTHEID; POLITICAL party organization; ELECTIONS; PATRIMONIALISM (Political science); POLITICAL science; FRELIMO; MILITARY government
- Publication
Politique Africaine, 2010, Issue 117, p23
- ISSN
0244-7827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3917/polaf.117.0023