Editing FRELIMO (section)

=== 21st century ===
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[[File:FRELIMO final campaign rally in Maputo.jpg|thumb|A section of the crowd at its final campaign rally for the [[Mozambican general election, 2014|2014 election]].]]
[[File:Vyacheslav Volodin with Esperança Bias (2023-04-26).jpg|thumb|FRELIMO's Secretary for Administration and Finance [[Esperança Bias]] with [[Chairman of the State Duma]] [[Vyacheslav Volodin]] in Moscow, Russia, 26 April 2023]]
In early 2001 Chissano announced his intention to not stand for the 2004 presidential election, although the constitution permitted him to do so.

In 2002, during its 8th Congress, the party selected [[Armando Guebuza]] as its candidate for the [[Elections in Mozambique|presidential election]] held on 1–2 December 2004. As expected given FRELIMO's majority status, he won, gaining about 60% of the vote. At the [[Legislature|legislative]] [[elections in Mozambique|elections]] of the same date, the party won 62.0% of the popular vote and 160 of 250 seats in the national assembly.

RENAMO and some other opposition parties made claims of election fraud and denounced the result. International observers (among others, members of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Mozambique and the Carter Center) supported these claims, criticizing the National Electoral Commission (CNE) for failing to conduct fair and transparent elections. They listed numerous cases of improper conduct by the electoral authorities that benefited FRELIMO. However, the EU observers concluded that the elections shortcomings probably did not affect the presidential election's final result.