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Mozambique: Catholic University rector asks CC judges to shed their “political cloaks”
9:37 CAT | 13 Nov 2024
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The rector of the Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM) has asked the judges of the Constitutional Council (CC) to shed their “political cloaks” and ascertain the “electoral truth” in order to resolve the conflicts taking place in the country since the October elections.
“The time has come for the judges of the Constitutional Council to give up on and shed their political cloaks in order to give credibility to this entire process, to disclose the results based on the evidence that has been presented so far and that can serve as material for analysis. The Constitutional Council has the responsibility to analyse and tell society about the electoral truth, in a more technical way in order to give credibility to that body,” said the rector of the UCM, Filipe Sungo.
“In this time of crisis, while we await the proclamation of the results by the Constitutional Council, all of Mozambican society should promote peace meetings and call for non-violence in Mozambique,” he argued.
Presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane on Monday (11-11) called for a new period of demonstrations in Mozambique, lasting three days, starting on Wednesday, in all provincial capitals, to protest against the electoral process.
“We will demonstrate at the borders, at the ports and in the provincial capitals. All 11 provincial capitals (…) We will stop all activities so that people will understand that they are tired,” Venâncio Mondlane said in a live broadcast on his official Facebook account.
Mondlane was talking about the “fourth stage” of protest against the general elections of October 9, which were to have “several phases”, also to be announced in phases, and will also protest against “kidnappings and hostage-taking” and “the murder of the people”.
“We will demonstrate for three days. Then we will take a break,” he said in the same speech, broadcast “from exile”, calling for the population to gather in all provincial capitals, including Maputo, by Friday.
This protest is set to be extended to the country’s ports and borders and the transport corridors connecting them. Mondlane appealed to truck drivers to join in. “We are not forcing anyone to join the demonstration. We are passing on the values of the demonstration and whoever wants to join can join,” he sais.
Regarding the impact of the national demonstration on 7 November in Maputo, which led to a day of chaos in the Mozambican capital, he stated that it was never his intention to carry out a coup d’état. “If we wanted to carry out a coup d’état, we would have done it”, he said, pledging: “We will not give up, we will not retreat. They have already killed many people.”
At least five people died, 38 were shot and 164 were arrested in Mozambique on 7 November, the last day of the third stage of the demonstrations called by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, the Mozambican non-governmental organization (NGO) Plataforma Eleitoral Decide announcedon Monday.
Mozambique, and especially Maputo, have seen activity stoppages and demonstrations called since October 21 by Venâncio Mondlane, who does not recognize the results of the general elections announced by the National Electoral Commission, according to which Daniel Chapo and the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, the ruling party) won the election.
The demonstrations in Maputo left a trail of destruction, with deaths, injuries, arrests, infrastructure destroyed and commercial establishments looted, especially on November 7.
According to data presented by the Plataforma Decide, three of the deaths occurred in Maputo, one in the province of Inhambane (south), and another in the province of Tete (centre).
Plataforma Decide also recorded 38 people shot, with the city of Maputo having the highest number of cases (32), followed by the province of Inhambane with three, Maputo province with one, and the same number with the provinces of Zambézia and Tete, centre of the country.
The NGO also indicated that, of the 164 people arrested, 61 were recorded in the country’s capital.
Source: Lusa
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