Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique | |
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Appointer | Filipe Nyusi, as President of Mozambique |
Inaugural holder | Mário da Graça Machungo |
Formation | 17 July 1986 |
Website | www |
The following is a list of Prime Ministers of Mozambique , since the establishment of the office of Prime Minister of Portuguese Mozambique in 1974.
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east. The capital of Mozambique is Maputo while Matola is the largest city, being a suburb of Maputo.
Portuguese Mozambique or Portuguese East Africa were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the historic period when it was a Portuguese colony. Portuguese Mozambique originally constituted a string of Portuguese possessions along the south-east African coast, and later became a unified colony, which now forms the Republic of Mozambique.
№ | Prime Minister | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Election | |
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Portuguese Mozambique | |||||||
1 | Joaquim Chissano (born 1939) | 20 September 1974 | 25 June 1975 | 278 days | FRELIMO | — | |
People's Republic of Mozambique | |||||||
Post abolished (25 June 1975 – 17 July 1986) | |||||||
1 | Mário da Graça Machungo (born 1940) | 17 July 1986 | 1 December 1990 | 4 years, 137 days | FRELIMO | — | |
Republic of Mozambique | |||||||
(1) | Mário da Graça Machungo (born 1940) | 1 December 1990 | 16 December 1994 | 4 years, 15 days | FRELIMO | — | |
2 | Pascoal Mocumbi (born 1941) | 16 December 1994 | 17 August 2004 | 9 years, 245 days | FRELIMO | 1994 1999 | |
3 | Luísa Diogo (born 1958) | 17 August 2004 | 16 January 2010 | 5 years, 152 days | FRELIMO | 2004 | |
4 | Aires Ali (born 1955) | 16 January 2010 | 8 October 2012 | 2 years, 266 days | FRELIMO | 2009 | |
5 | Alberto Vaquina (born 1961) | 8 October 2012 | 17 January 2015 | 2 years, 101 days | FRELIMO | — | |
6 | Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (born 1954) | 17 January 2015 | Incumbent | 4 years, 189 days | FRELIMO | 2014 |
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