The official residence is the Palácio da Ponta Vermelha.
Affliations:- FRELIMO = Frente da Libertação de Moçambique (Liberation Front of Mozambique, authoritarian/socialist, renounces Marxist-Leninism 30 Jul 1989) RENAMO = Resistencia Nacional Moçambicana (Mozambican National Resistance)
Armando Guebuza was inaugurated as the President of Mozambique on February 2, 2005.
Mozambique is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and ranks among the moderate members of the African Bloc in the United Nations and other international organizations.
Mozambique's major ethnic groups encompass numerous subgroups with diverse languages, dialects, cultures, and histories.
Politics of Mozambique takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Mozambique is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
Joaquim Chissano was elected president with 53% of the vote, and a 250-member National Assembly was voted in with 129 FRELIMO deputies, 112 RENAMO deputies, and 9 representatives of three smaller parties that formed the Democratic Union (UD).