Daviz Simango

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Daviz Simango

Daviz Simango (* 1964 ) is the chairman and the central figure of the Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (MDM) party in Mozambique and mayor of the city of Beira in the second term of office . Simango also ran at short notice as one of three candidates for the presidential election in Mozambique in 2009 and achieved a respectable success. He failed again in the 2019 election .

Life and political career

Simango has an engineering degree. His father Uria Simango was one of the founders and vice-president of FRELIMO , but was executed without a court order on the party's orders along with his wife and other FRELIMO dissidents. Simango therefore began his political career as a member of the insignificant Partido de Convenção Nacional (PCN), one of those parties that formed an electoral alliance with the RENAMO party , the major opponent of today's ruling FRELIMO party since the Mozambican civil war, under the name Renamo - União Eleitoral were received.

His party MDM came into being in 2009 as a reaction to a scandal in connection with Simango's second candidacy for mayor in 2008. Daviz Simango was still victorious as a candidate for RENAMO in the local elections in 2003 , and another candidacy for the next local elections seemed natural. Obviously because of fear of competition from the popular Simango, Afonso Dhlakama , the overpowering chairman of RENAMO, banned Simango from running for RENAMO in the mayoral elections.

Simango then received broad support from parts of the RENAMO in Beira, but also from other groups, was able to run as an independent candidate and was elected mayor of Beiras in the local elections in 2008 with 62% of the votes against the will of the RENAMO leadership.

The following year he also ran as a candidate for the 2009 presidential election . In his home province of Sofala and the city and province of Maputo , he took second place behind the victorious candidate of the ruling party FRELIMO and ahead of the largest opposition party RENAMO. In the local elections in 2013 he was again able to win the mayoral seat of Beira with an overwhelming majority, while the MDM party he founded became the only serious opponent of the ruling party nationwide.

In the 2019 presidential election , he received a little more than four percent of the vote, taking third place.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sérgio Chichava: MDM: a new political force in Mozambique? (PDF; 253 kB) In: cmi.no. April 6, 2010, accessed July 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Annette Schwarzbauer: Wake-up call with Hahn - The new party MDM in Mozambique. (PDF; 32 kB) Country report. In: kas.de. Konrad Adenauer Foundation , March 11, 2009 .;
  3. ↑ Joseph Hanlon: 2009 Elections Mozambique political process bulletin Number 30. (PDF; 56 kB) New parliament: Frelimo 192, Renamo 48, MDM 8. (No longer available online.) In: cip.org.mz. Centro de Integridade Pública and AWEPA, the European Parliamentarians for Africa, November 1, 2009, archived from the original on October 18, 2011 (English).;
  4. ↑ Reuters : Mozambique's Nyusi secures landslide win. standardmedia.co.ke of October 28, 2019 (English), accessed on October 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Simango, Daviz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1964