Parliament unanimously approved the Mozambican President’s trip to Italy between 22 and 23 May, to inaugurate an exhibition on 25 April and speak at a conference on the European Union.
In a letter to the Assembly of the Republic dated 22 April, the head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said that he plans to travel to Italy to take part in the opening of an exhibition on the 50th anniversary of 25 April in Rome and to speak at a conference on the state of the European Union at the European University Institute in Florence.
This will be his seventh trip as Mozambican President to Italy, where he made a state visit in November 2019 at the invitation of his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella.
The President of Italy had previously been to Portugal on a state visit in December 2017.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa travelled to Italy at the start of his first term in office, in May 2016, on his way to Mozambique, where he was received by Sergio Mattarella in Rome.
He returned in May 2018 for a conference on Europe in Florence and in May 2019 for a meeting of the business organisation Cotec Europa in Naples.
After his state visit, he returned to Italy in September 2021 for a meeting of the heads of state of the Arraiolos Group in Rome, and in June 2023 for another Cotec Europe meeting, this time in Palermo.
The consent of the Mozambican Parliament to the head of state travelling abroad is a formality imposed by the Constitution, which states that the Mozambican President cannot leave national territory without the parliament’s authorisation.
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