CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE
Meeting the age-old desires of our people, the armed struggle for national
liberation, whose purpose was to liberate the land and Man, brought together all
the patriotic sectors of Mozambican society in the same ideals of freedom, unity,
justice and progress.
When national independence was won on the 25th of June 1975, the
Mozambican people were given back their fundamental rights and freedoms.
The Constitution of 1990 introduced the democratic rule of law, based on the
separation and interdependence of powers and on pluralism. It laid down the
structural parameters for modernisation, making a decisive contribution to the
beginning of a democratic climate that led the country to its first multiparty
elections.
The Constitution reaffirms, develops and deepens the fundamental principles of
the Mozambican State, and enshrines the sovereign nature of the democratic
rule of law, based on pluralism of expression and partisan organisation and on
respect for and the guarantee of fundamental rights and liberties of citizens.
The extensive participation of citizens in making this basic law conveys the
consensus to strengthen democracy and national unity, which flows from the
collective wisdom of the people.
Now therefore, the Assembly of the Republic determines:
TITLE I
BASIC PRINCIPLES
CHAPTER I
THE REPUBLIC
Article 1
Republic of Mozambique
The Republic of Mozambique is an independent, sovereign, democratic State of
social justice.
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