Multi-Party System Gains in Mozambique
United Press International
MAPUTO, Mozambique —
The Central Committee of the ruling Frelimo Party has endorsed President Joaquim Chissano’s recommendation to abandon the country’s one-party socialist state in favor of a multi-party system and a market economy.
Frelimo has ruled since independence from Portugal in 1975, and endorsed the measure in an apparent bid to rectify a rapidly deteriorating centralized economy and end a bloody civil war with right-wing rebels of the foreign-sponsored Renamo movement.
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