Two parliamentary commissions will quiz the government on the secret debt. The
parliamentary Standing Commission agreed Monday (9 May) that the both Plan and
Budget Commission and the Defence and Public Order Commission would question
the government. The parliament session is scheduled to resume in June, but
commissions meet during recesses so the hearings could be soon. The secret debt
was taken without parliamentary approval (thus the Budget Commission) and is
said to be for patrol boats and others arms (thus the Defence Commission).
Renamo boycotted the Standing Committee session.
This is a total reversal of the position of Frelimo in parliament, which last month rejected a debate on the debt. More than $2 billion in secret loans and bonds were taken on in 2103-14 by a small group around the then President Armando Guebuza. Many MPs are seen as aligned to Guebuza, and the reversal of position is an indication of increasing pressure on Guebuza and Frelimo.
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