Constitutional Council announces results of municipal elections today – Mozambique

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Constitutional Council announces results of municipal elections today – Mozambique

10:44 CAT | 14 Nov 2018

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Mozambique’s Constitutional Council will officially announce the results of the October 10 municipal elections in Maputo today, ending the processes surrounding the fifth such poll in the country.

Today’s event may be a formality, the Constitutional Council having rejected all appeals lodged by political parties with regard to candidacies, voting and the tabulation of results by the electoral bodies.

Nevertheless, the Constitutional Council may, as the last instance of electoral litigation, investigate any given case on its own initiative and annul the election, if it confirms that irregularities have occurred which affected the election in general, as happened in 2013 in Guru, reports CIP Eleições.

The results of the poll by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) give victory to the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the ruling party, in 44 of the country’s 53 municipalities.

The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition party, won in eight municipalities, while the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the third-largest party, won in only one.

Renamo saw the Constitutional Council reject four of the five appeals it lodged against the results in an equal number of municipalities, its appeal concerning one municipality remained unanswered.

Frelimo saw its sole appeal denied, as did the MDM.

The October 10 municipal elections were the fifth in the history of Mozambique, the first being held in 1998 as part of the introduction of political and administrative decentralisation in the country.

Source: Lusa / CIP Eleições