Opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama said on Wednesday that he would meet President Joaquim Chissano on Thursday for a third round of talks aimed at resolving a dispute over elections held more than one year ago, news reports said.
“We are going to assess the work of the various joint working groups set up in our last meeting in January,” Dhlakama was quoted as saying. “There are only two options to resolve the crisis -the appointment of governors where we won the most votes, or early elections in 2002,” Dhlakama said. “We don’t demand power sharing as such, but we want to be given space at the grassroots level.”
Dhlakama’s RENAMO party has never accepted the results of the December 1999 general elections, claiming the outcome was rigged despite a Supreme Court ruling that declared the poll legitimate.
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