The opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) has retained its control of the central city of Beira, winning almost 60 per cent of the vote in Wednesday's municipal election.
According to the"intermediate count', announced on Saturday by the Beira district elections commission, the MDM won 112,963 votes .
These results mean that the MDM mayor of Beira, Albano Carige, has won a second term. His predecessor, MDM founder Daviz Simango, was mayor of the city from 2003 until his death in February 2021. He was initially elected on the Renamo ticket, but after the then Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama threw him out of the party, he was re-elected as an independent in 2008, and then repeatedly as the MDM candidate.
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