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Ruling Faction Wins

MAPUTO, Mozambique () -- Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano and his ruling Frelimo Party have won the country's first multiparty elections with 53.3 percent of the presidential vote and 129 of the 250 parliamentary seats.


Former rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama came in second for president, with 33.7 percent of the votes, and his Renamo party took 112 parliamentary seats. Chissano appealed in an address to the nation for a final end to the civil war that raged for 16 years from independence until the signing of a peace accord with Renamo in October 1992.




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