Enea's comiche

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Eneas da Conceição Comiche (born July 28, 1939 in the Moma District , Nampula Province , Mozambique ) is a Mozambican economist and politician ( FRELIMO ). Comiche has already held numerous important offices in the Mozambican state, including a. he served as finance minister as well as mayor of the capital Maputo.

Life

education

Eneas da Conceição Comiche is the third son of nine children born to his parents Jaime Comiche and Ilda Elisabeth Macunguel.

Comiche completed his basic education in 1957 at the Commercial School of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) before moving to the Commercial College in Lisbon in 1959 . He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto with a Licenciatura .

Professional career

Comiche then worked for the Armazéns Soares Correia trading company in Vila Nova de Gaia . In 1970 Comiche moved back to Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), where he worked from 1971 to 1975 as a lecturer at the Economics Faculty of the University of Lourenço Marques. At the same time he worked at the Instituto de Crédito de Moçambique , first as a simple clerk (1970–1971), later as administrator (1974–75) and later as chairman of the institute (1975–77).

Career in the Mozambican state

After Mozambique gained independence in 1975, he served in a wide variety of government positions. First as chairman of the supervisory board of Banco Popular de Desenvolvimento (1978–86) and as deputy finance minister (1984–86) and as governor of the Mozambican central bank Banco de Moçambique (1986–1991). In 1991 he returned to the government and served as his country's finance minister under the government of Joaquim Chissano (1991–94). According to an internal message from the US embassy in Maputo , Comiche was (and still is) a confidante of Chissanos.

Comiche changed after his time as finance minister to the board of directors of the Banco Comercial de Moçambique, which was spun off from the state bank . Comiche took over the chairmanship of the board of directors. Among other things, the state bank was privatized under his leadership; today, after the merger with Banco Internacional de Moçambique, it is part of the largest Mozambican bank Millennium bim .

Mayor of Maputo

In 2002 the FRELIMO Comiche selected as its candidate for the office of mayor of the Mozambican capital Maputo. This won the local elections in 2003 with 75.8% and then ruled the capital. His term of office is considered relatively successful.

Due to internal party differences, FRELIMO selected his rival David Simango as a candidate for the office of mayor in the subsequent election in 2008 . Allegedly, according to media reports, because he had refused to give land to local party leaders and to grant other privileges. Simango won the 2008 elections as well as the subsequent municipal elections in 2013 .

Due to his resignation, he only ran for a seat in the Mozambican parliament , for which he was also elected in the 2009 parliamentary elections . In parliament he took over the chairmanship of the budget committee. There was speculation of a candidacy for the chairmanship of FRELIMO 2012, to succeed President Armando Guebuza , who was to step down in 2014 . This did not succeed, but he was nevertheless elected to the Central Committee, the highest party organ of FRELIMO. In the meantime, he was also traded as a candidate for the office of President, succeeding Guebuza.

Private

Comiche has been married to his wife since 1973, whom he met during his time in Porto.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d Evidenciam-se posicionamentos pela sucessão de Guebuza. In: Correio de Manhã. December 11, 2013, accessed November 23, 2014 (Portuguese, quoted from Macua Blogs / Moçambique para todos).
  3. ↑ a b c Cronologia do Banco de Moçambique. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Banco de Moçambique, archived from the original on May 3, 2015 ; Retrieved November 23, 2014 (Portuguese).
  4. ^ Joseph Hanlon: Matando a galinha dos ovos de ouro (4): BCM - de metalúrgico a banqueiro. In: metical nº 1077. Moçambique on-line, September 21, 2001, accessed November 23, 2014 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Lothar Berger: Modest successes. (PDF) In: afrika süd Nr. 1, 2004. Society for technical cooperation (gtz), 2004, accessed on November 22, 2014 .
  6. ↑ a b Joe Hanlon: Limits to Guebuza's Power. (PDF) In: Mozambique circular. Coordination Group Mozambique eV, November 2012, accessed on November 23, 2014 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Ilídio Macia: Acerca do "afastamento" de Eneas Comiche ... In: O Quotidiano de Moçambique. August 27, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2014 (Portuguese).
  8. ^ Mozambique. ( ISBN 978-90-04-17811-3 ) In: Africa Yearbook Volume 5: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara. Andreas Mehler , Henning Melber, Klaas Van Walraven, 2009, p. 457 , accessed on November 23, 2014 (English): “The mayor of Maputo, Eneas Comiche, had proved to be highly effective, but Frelimo did not choose him to stand again because he was seen as too independent of party leadership. "
  9. ↑ Deputados precisam de capacitação permanent. In: Jornal Notícias. June 5, 2014, accessed November 23, 2014 (Portuguese).
  10. ↑ “Não há espaço para novos pré-candidatos presidenciais”. In: O País. December 30, 2013, accessed November 24, 2014 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Comiche, Eneas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comiche, Eneas da Conceição (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican economist and politician (FRELIMO)
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Moma District , Nampula Province