Mozambique: Cabinet meeting to discuss mid-term elections in Nampula – Wamphula Fax

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Mozambique: Cabinet meeting to discuss mid-term elections in Nampula – Wamphula Fax

11:21 CAT | 17 Oct 2017

DW (File photo) / People gathered outside the Faina cemetery during Mahamudo Amurane's funeral, in Nampula, October 7 2017.

The Council of Ministers will today discuss the holding of mid-term elections in Nampula as a result of the murder of municipal council president, Mayor Mahamudo Amurane.

The Minister of State Administration and Civil Servants Carmelita Namashulua was quoted yesterday in the national press as confirming the debate in question, explaining that the declaration of impediment of the mayor of the city council of Nampula was announced by the Municipal Assembly in an extraordinary meeting held last Friday.

Namashulua explained the declaration is within statutory deadlines and that the government was therefore following the procedures required by law, the National Elections Commission (CNE) being opportunely heard before setting the possible mid-term election date.

President of the Nampula Municipal Assembly, Manuel Tocova, is acting as caretaker mayor since the impediment of Mahamudo Amurane, shot and killed on October 4, was officially decreed.

Mozambican jurists say that according to the letter of the law, Mahamudo Amurane’s term would only [effectively] end with the inauguration of the new municipal assembly, due to occur long after the municipal elections date scheduled for October 10, 2018.

Even from the declaration of impediment, October 13, there is more than a year until the end of the term.

Wamphula Fax sources report that the environment within the city council is tense, with some members close to the deceased mayor having already presented their resignations, thereby implicitly refusing to work with Tocova.

Source: Wamphula Fax