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CIP Mozambique Elections: CC confirms that results approved by CNE are false, but validates election results
11:14 CAT | 24 Nov 2023
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The Constitutional Council has confirmed all the evidence of generalised fraud in the municipal elections of 11 October, and declared Renamo the winner in Chiure, Quelimane, Alto Molocuè and Vilankulo. In what seems to be a clear political compromise, the CC declared Frelimo the winner in Maputo and Matola, but gave the opposition a further 22 seats in the municipal assemblies, resulting from the recovery of more than 70,000 votes which the National Elections Commission (CNE) had fraudulently attributed to Frelimo.
The CC also ordered the elections to be repeated in all the polling stations in the municipality of Marromeu, in Sofala, and in several polling stations in the municipalities of Nacala-Porto (Nampula) and Guruè and Milange (Zambézia). These repeat elections will take place on 3 December.
According to the ruling from the Constitutional Council, Renamo takes the municipalities of Quelimane, Alto Molócuè, Vilankulo and Chiure, but loses by a small margin in Matola and Maputo city.
In addition to recovering four municipalities where Frelimo had earlier been declared the winner, the opposition recovered assembly seats which the CNE had given to Frelimo. For example, the opposition recovered four seats in Quelimane, Alto Molócuè, Vilankulo and Chiure. It also managed to recover 3,000 votes, corresponding to three seats, which had been given to Frelimo in the city of Xai-Xai
In the Matola municipality, the MDM and Renamo managed to recover about 30,000 votes, corresponding to six seats in the municipal assembly. In the new municipality of Matola-Rio, the Constitutional Council allocated one more assembly seat to the opposition.
The same happened in the new municipality of Marracuene, where Renamo recovered about 2,500 votes. In these two municipalities alone, the opposition succeeded in rescuing 3,000 votos and two seats.
In Maputo city, the opposition parties recovered 29,000 votes and six seats which the CNE had given to Frelimo.
The numbers of municipalities and assembly seats recovered in favour of the opposition, plus the fact that the elections must be repeated in four municipalities, are clear evidence that these were the most fraudulent elections ever held in Mozambique.
In its ruling, the Constitutional Council recognises the electoral crimes and irregularities which took place but, as usual, said they did not influence the final result, particularly the winner. However the alteration in the municipal assembly seats is already proof that the electoral crimes did influence the result.
The full Constitutional Council ruling (in Portuguese) is HERE.
Source: Centro de Integridade Pública - CIP
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