Mário Albino

Mário Albino is a Mozambican politician who ran for mayor of Nampula in 2018 and for president in 2019.

Albino is the leader of the United Movement for Action and Integral Salvation (AMUSI), a political party that split off from Democratic Movement of Mozambique in the mid 2010s, the latter which itself is a split off from Mozambique's main opposition party RENAMO.

[1] On 31 July the Mozambique's Constitutional Council approved Albino along with Filipe Nyusi, Ossufo Momade, and Daviz Simango as candidates in the 2019 presidential election.

[1] Albino was the only candidate from a non-traditional party to receive the necessary 10,000 signatures required to run for president.

[4] In September 2019 Albino claimed that the AMUSI headquarters in the Namutequeliua neighborhood of Nampula were attacked by members of RENAMO who fled after the staff called the police.