Paper long abstract:

The paper is devoted to analysis of the last Presidential and Parliamentary elections that took place in Mozambique on December, 2004. The author emphasizes the 1992 General Peace Agreement, signed in Rome by the President Joaquim Chissano and guerilla leader Afonso Dhlakama, marked the beginning of process of democratic changes in Mozambique. The country's first pluralist elections, held in 1994, established a formally competitive system which opened the political arena to Renamo's guerrillas and other political parties.

The paper will argue the results of the last Presidential and Parliamentary elections confirmed the leading positions of Frelimo as the country's ruling party. Besides, the elections showed that Mozambique whose political system is still characterized by an ambiguous relationship between ruling party and state apparatus, a heavy centralization of power, rampant of corruption and the weak independence of the legislative, media and judicial systems, belongs to the so called "transitional states" that make first steps on the road to real democracy, implementing democratic reforms and adopting appropriate standards into political life.