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AMMMP: “Magistrates Make Significant Progress in Talks with Government”

AMMMP: “Magistrates Make Significant Progress in Talks with Government”

The president of the Mozambican Association of Public Prosecutors (AMMMP) told Lusa today that the professionals have made ‘important progress’ in talks with the Mozambican government, following the submission of a set of demands by the class.

‘We have been in talks with the government in which we have made important progress,’ said Eduardo Sumana, president of the AMMMP, questioned by Lusa about the state of play of the list of demands submitted to the executive on 17 July.

In the document, the magistrates demanded autonomy and financial independence, improvements in salaries and security for professionals, and at the time gave the government 30 days to respond to their concerns.

‘In the absence of a response within 30 days, the General Assembly will meet and decide on measures to be taken by the class in the future,’ the AMMMP said in its statement at the time.

Eduardo Sumana said that the magistrates will meet this week, promising to give more details on the talks with the Mozambican government.

The Mozambican Minister of Justice said on Wednesday that she would make a ‘great effort’ to avoid strikes by magistrates and judges, the latter of whom have also presented the executive with demands for improvements and financial independence.

‘As far as the government is concerned, in the terms agreed with the magistrates, we are going to make a very big effort so that there is no room for these strikes,’ said the Minister of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs, Helena Kida, in Maputo.

The judges, meanwhile, suspended the strike previously scheduled for 9 August as a result of the executive’s openness to dialogue.

The judges are complaining about an alleged ‘depreciation of their status’ and flaws in the application of the New Salary Scale (TSU), which has been strongly contested by other professional classes, such as doctors and teachers, who have even called strikes in protest at salary delays and cuts.

Approved in 2022 to eliminate asymmetries and keep the state wage bill under control, the start of the TSU caused salaries to skyrocket by around 36 per cent, from an expenditure of 11.6 billion meticals per month (169 million euros per month) to 15.8 billion meticals per month (231 million euros per month).

The TSU cost around 28.5 billion meticals (410 million euros), ‘more than expected’, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) document on the evaluation of Mozambique’s assistance programme released in January.

Lusa

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