Abstract
Do one-time “revolutionary” movements enjoy particular advantages or suffer disadvantages in adapting to competitive democratic politics? Political competition in Mozambique is dominated by the Frente de Libertaçáo de Moçambique (FRELIMO, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), the ruling party since independence, and the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (RENAMO, the Mozambican National Resistance), an armed opposition group that fought a 16-year war with the FRELIMO government after independence. RENAMO entered the political arena as a political party in 1994, under the terms of the 1992 peace agreement. Of the two, only FRELIMO has ever been seriously designated as a movement with “revolutionary” tendencies or ambitions. It began as a guerrilla army fighting Portuguese colonial rule and assumed power in 1975 with the departure of the Portuguese.
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