Mozambique: Renamo declares itself the winner of the elections – by ‘the rural vote’

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Mozambique: Renamo declares itself the winner of the elections – by ‘the rural vote’

2:37 CAT | 28 Nov 2024

"If Renamo is not in first place, then it could be in second place, taking into account the rural vote," said the president of Renamo's Jurisdictional Council, Arnaldo Chalaua. [Photo: O País]

Renamo expects the Constitutional Council to declare it the winner of the October 9 elections

The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition force, said this Thursday that it expects the Constitutional Council (CC) to declare the party and its leader winners of the October 9 election, on the grounds that it received the “rural vote”.

“Our expectation is that everything will come in Renamo’s favour. If Renamo is not in first place, then it could be in second place, taking into account the rural vote,” the president of the party’s Jurisdictional Council, Arnaldo Chalaua, told a press conference in Maputo.

Chalaua said that Renamo had filed several appeals with the CC, stating that the data presented to the justice bodies “give some certainty and confidence” that the “electoral truth” will be restored.

“This is our greatest expectation: that the CC will respect the will of the people. Proving the people right means making a definitive verification of what the process was,” Chalaua said, asking the Constitutional Court to “do a thorough job” in judging the cases “within the bounds of normality”.

“Ultimately, it would be good if the CC, seeing that the elections were fraudulent, annulled them. We cannot play with elections,” he appealed, asserting that the party had carried out a parallel count of the process and has in its possession data that confirms its victory.

On 24 October, the Mozambican CNE announced the victory of Daniel Chapo (Frelimo) in the election for President of the Republic, with 70.67% of the votes, results that still need to be validated by the Constitutional Council, but which are not recognized by any of the remaining three candidates, amid accusations of electoral fraud.

Venâncio Mondlane, former Renamo deputy now supported by the Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), came second with 20.32% (1,412,517 votes), followed by Ossufo Momade, with 403,591 votes (5.81%), and Lutero Simango, president of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM, third parliamentary party), with 223,066 votes (3.21%).

Source: Lusa