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Mozambique: On eve of deadline, 36 parties, coalitions registered for elections
11:53 CAT | 07 May 2024
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Mozambique’s National Electoral Commission (CNE) has registered 36 parties as standing candidates in the general elections scheduled for 9 October in the country and expects at least three more parties to register on Tuesday, the last day of the process.
According to a CNE source, four more parties registered on Monday, including the governing Frelimo party, which has been in power nationally since independence, New Democracy (ND), the Party for Peace, Democracy and Development (PDD), and the Party for the Development of Mozambique (PDM).
Registration of political parties, coalitions of political parties, and groups of citizen voters proposing to stand candidates in this year’s general elections began on 22 April and ends on Tuesday, 7 May, and the CNE had by Monday afternoon received successfully 36 submissions for registration.
For Tuesday, the CNE expects three more parties to register, namely the Social Expansion Party of Mozambique (Pasomo), as well as the recently created TRF and MDR.
According to a CNE source, registration closes at 3.30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, and there is no scope to extend the deadline.
Mozambique is holding general elections on 9 October, including presidential elections. The current head of state and Frelimo leader, Filipe Nyusi, is not standing, as he has reached the two-term limit laid down in the country’s constitution.
The same polling day will also see legislative elections and elections for provincial governors and provincial assemblies.
Source: Lusa
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