Verónica Macamo

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Veronica Macamo, 2016

Verónica Nataniel Macamo Dhlovo , Verónica Macamo for short (born November 13, 1957 in Chissano , Gaza Province , Portuguese East Africa ) is a Mozambican politician ( FRELIMO ) and MP . Macamo has been President of the Mozambican National Parliament since 2010 .

biography

Verónica Nataniel Macamo Dhlovo was born on November 13, 1957 in the village of Chissano near the town of Bilene in the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique. After finishing school, she studied law at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo . Macamo founded the Association of Women Lawyers in Mozambique (Associação da Mulher de Carreira Jurídica) .

Outside of her political career, she worked for the Mozambican women's organization ( OMM ), of which she has been an honorary member since 1990. She also advised various companies on legal matters. From 2000 to 2009 she headed the 2009 Board of Directors of the National Tourism Fund. In 2009 she was the board member of Companhia Moçambicana de Hidrocarboretos .

Promotion in FRELIMO

Macamo joined after Mozambique's independence and the legalization of the socialist-Marxist liberation movement FRELIMO in 1975. From the 1990s onwards she rose rapidly within the party. Since 1991 she has been a member of the Comité Central (comparable to an extended party presidium), where she headed the women's committee in 1994/95 and took over the duties of spokesperson for foreign affairs in 1995. Since 1997 she has been a member of the most important party organ, the Comissão Política .

Within the party, she is considered a member of the party wing around Armando Guebuza , President of Mozambique between 2005 and 2015.

MPs

Verónica Macamo in conversation with Michelle Bachelet , President of Chile

Macamo has been a member of the Mozambican National Parliament since the parliamentary elections in 1994 , a member of the FRELIMO parliamentary group there, and was re-elected from the provincial list for Gaza in 1999 , 2004 , 2009 and 2014 . She had already carried out various tasks within Parliament. Between 2000 and 2004 she headed the Committee for the Modernization of Parliament ( Comité de Modernização da Assembleia da República , COMAR).

Between 2004 and 2009 she held the office of Vice-President of Parliament and headed the Parliament's Administrative Council (Conselho Consultivo de Administração da Assembleia da República) . Since 2010 she has elected parliament with 91.4 percent to succeed the outgoing parliamentary speaker Eduardo Mulembue . In 2015 she was re-confirmed for the new legislative period in this office with 89 percent. In the role of Vice-President of Parliament, she is also a member of the Main Committee (Comissão Permanente) .

Macamo is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament .

Private

Verónica Macamo is married and has three children. She lives in the Maputo suburb of Matola .

Controversy

After Macamo's election as President of Parliament, the Mozambican weekly newspaper @Verdade reported that Macamo did not consider their previous company car, a Mercedes-Benz S 300 , to be representative enough. As a result, the parliamentary administration ordered a new Mercedes-Benz S 500 , which is said to have cost 14 million Neue Meticals (around 396,000 euros in 2015). This act sparked a controversial debate, according to which Macamo is believed to have withdrawn the vehicle's order.

In the 2013 local elections campaign, Macamo campaigned for her party in numerous cities. At an election campaign event in the northern Mozambican city of Quelimane, in which the opposition candidate Manuel de Araújo ( MDM ) had been given a good chance, Macamo was quoted by the government-critical newspaper Canal de Moçambique as saying that FRELIMO had to take the city, even if it did blood is shed in the process. This statement sparked massive protests from MDM supporters. Macamo denied this statement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f VERÓNICA NATANIEL MACAMO DHLOVO - Curriculum Vitae. (PDF) Assembleia da República de Moçambique, 2010, accessed on March 28, 2015 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ US Embassy Maputo, Mozambique: GUEBUZA INAUGURATION FLAUNTS EXCESS, YET REVEALS PARTY WORRIES WITH URBAN YOUTH (10MAPUTO82_a). In: Wikileaks.org. January 26, 2010, accessed on March 29, 2015 (English): "(...) Guebuza (...) replaced long-standing speaker Eduardo Mulembwe with senior Frelimo politico and Guebuza loyalist Veronica Macamo."
  3. ↑ Moçambique: Verónica Macamo assume presidência do parlamento. (No longer available online.) Portal do Governo de Moçambique, January 12, 2010, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 29, 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.portaldogoverno.gov.mz
  4. ^ Mozambique: Frelimo Nominates Veronica Macamo to Head New Assembly. In: allAfrica.com. January 11, 2015, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Veronica Macamo reeleita Presidente da AR. (No longer available online.) Assembleia da República de Moçambique, January 13, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 29, 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.parlamento.mz
  6. ↑ Verónica Macamo diz que o Estado nunca lhe deu casa para morar. In: O País. September 2, 2011, accessed March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Historical exchange rate: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=MZN&to=EUR&view=5Y
  8. ^ Rui Lamarques: Verónica Macamo vai andar de S500. In: A Verdade. November 15, 2012, accessed March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
  9. ↑ Rui Lamarques: Verónica Macamo já nicht vai andar de S500. (No longer available online.) In: A Verdade. March 14, 2013, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 29, 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.charas.co.mz
  10. ↑ “É imperioso reconquistar Quelimane nem que isso custe vidas”. (PDF) In: Canal de Moçambique. November 27, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
  11. ↑ Jocas Achar: ELEIÇÕES AUTÁRQUICAS - Veronica Macamo desmente. In: Jornal Notícias. November 23, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
  12. ^ Mozambique: Veronica Macamo Defends Her Good Name. In: allAfrica.com. November 27, 2013, accessed March 29, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Macamo, Verónica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Macamo Dhlovo, Verónica Nataniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican politician (FRELIMO), MP and President of the Assembleia da República
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Chissano , Bilene , Gaza Province , Portuguese East Africa