Mozambique's independence from Portugal in 1975 was followed by nearly two decades of civil war and a decade of a one-party Marxist-Leninist government.

President Filipe Nyusi of FRELIMO won the presidential contest in 2019 with 73 percent of the vote, an increase of 20 percentage points compared to his victory ...

Mozambique performs at the borderline between low and mid-range in Representation, Rule of Law and Participation and at the mid-range in Rights.

The ruling party's unbroken incumbency before and since the first multiparty elections in 1994 has allowed it to establish significant control over state ...

Mozambique is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a freely elected republican form of government. In 2019 voters re-elected as president Filipe ...

The first has been to empower ordinary Mozambicans by allowing them to participate in a democratic system and enabling them to voice their demands to the state ...

NDI began supporting the development of democratic institutions in Mozambique in 1993 with an extensive civic and voter education project (Vota Moçambique) ...

During this period, Frelimo's rule was labeled as "popular democracy"; today, the current model of governance is said to be a "multiparty democracy". (Note: it ...

" The Economist Intelligence Unit 2023 Democracy Index considers Mozambique's governance “authoritarian” based on various democratic indicators. Economic ...