Ivone Soares

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Memorial march in honor of Gilles Cistac in Maputo on March 7, 2015, in the front row Ivone Soares

Maria Ivone Bernardo Rensamo Soares , mostly just Ivone Soares , (born October 23, 1979 ) is a Mozambican politician ( RENAMO ) and journalist. Since 2015 she has been chairman of the RENAMO group in the national parliament of Mozambique .

Life

Ivone Soares was born in 1979 and grew up in Maputo. She is the niece of RENAMO chairman Afonso Dhlakama .

Soares studied communication sciences (bachelor) and administrative sciences (master) at the Maputo Universidade Politécnica from 2008 to 2011 . Soares has worked as a journalist and columnist, including for various radio stations (Terra Verde) and newspapers ( Tempo , Savana etc.). Soares runs and writes for various blogs in which she irregularly publishes political views, but also poems.

Political career

In 1993/94, in the course of the democratization of Mozambique, Soares joined the RENAMO, which had been a rebel organization until then and which changed into a party in the course of the peace process. Between 2007 and 2012 she was the head of the working group “Foreign Policy” of her party. In July 2009 Soares was appointed to the Comissão Política (comparable to a presidium or political board) of RENAMO. For the parliamentary elections in 2009 you had the duties of election campaign spokeswoman for RENAMO. At the same time she ran for a seat of parliament and won it through the province of Zambézia .

In the course of the political crisis and the newly flaring conflict between FRELIMO and RENAMO since 2013, RENAMO chairman Afonso Dhlakama left Maputo and moved into the old base in Gorongosa. Because of this, Soares gained a key position in external communication. Among other things, Soares managed to convince five ambassadors (USA, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom and Botswana) to hold political talks with Dhlakama in Sadjundjira ( Sofala province ), and a few weeks later Dhlakama signed the Second General Peace Agreement .

Soares also stepped up in the parliamentary and presidential election campaigns in 2014, she ran again in Zambézia for a parliamentary mandate, which she won again. After the two-month boycott of the swearing-in of parliament by RENAMO, the parliament and thus Soares and its parliamentary work could only start in February 2015. The RENAMO MPs elected her chairman of the group. With the new legislature it is also represented in the main committee of the parliament ( Comissão Permanente ). She is also head of the national parliamentary group for the Pan-African Parliament .

In September 2016, Soares survived an (attempted) attack on her at Quelimane airport. Soares planned to go to the correctional facility in town. The background to the crime is not known. The Zambezia Province Police Chief advised Soares to leave the city as the police could not guarantee her safety.

External impact

Ivone Soares belongs to a young, up-and-coming generation within RENAMO. She is occasionally referred to as the "star" of RENAMO, and she is said to have ambitions to become party leaders.

In 2014 and 2015, The Africa Report magazine named Soares as the only Mozambican woman among the 50 “Rising Stars” of Africa.

Private

Ivone Soares is married to a former Italian MP.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gervásio de Jesus / Dalton Sitoe: “Renamo está no meu DNA” - afirma Ivone Soares. In: Ídolo. March 15, 2015, accessed March 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b Renamo suspende boicote do Parlamento e seus deputados tomam posse. In: A Verdade. February 12, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015 (Portuguese).
  3. ^ Constituída nova Mesa da Assembleia da República. In: Jornal Notícias. February 13, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Fred Katerere: Mozambique: Outspoken woman politician perseveres. In: Pambazuka News. May 8, 2009, accessed March 17, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Ana Meireiles: Sobrinha de Dhlakama diz que tio perdeu controlo sobre os seus homens. (No longer available online.) In: Diário de Notícias. October 21, 2013, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 18, 2015 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dn.pt
  6. ^ Ivone Soares e Manteigas na Comissão Política. In: O País. July 24, 2009. Retrieved March 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Assinado Acordo de Paz II em Moçambique. In: A Verdade. September 5, 2014, accessed March 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
  8. ↑ Emídio Beula: Parlamento constitui Comissão Permanente com 11 rostos novos. In: O País. February 13, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015 (Portuguese).
  9. ↑ Ivone Soares eleita Coordenadora do Grupo Nacional do Parlamento-Africano. In: O País. February 13, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2015 (Portuguese).
  10. ↑ Who tried to shoot the head of Renamo's parliamentary group? Club of Mozambique, September 12, 2016, accessed on September 14, 2016 .
  11. ↑ a b Maria Ivone Soares, a jovem “estrela” da Renamo. In: Portuguese Independent News Network. December 7, 2014, accessed March 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
  12. ↑ Américo Matavele: Afinal quem manda na Renamo? In: Jornal Notícias. June 25, 2014, Retrieved March 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
  13. ↑ Glória Sousa: "Luto para que Moçambique seja um país modelo em África", diz deputada da RENAMO. Deutsche Welle, August 6, 2014, accessed March 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Soares, Ivone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soares, Maria Ivone Bernardo Rensamo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican politician (RENAMO) and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1979