Mozambique Elections: Around 12,000 observers, 11,516 are Mozambican – STAE

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Mozambique Elections: Around 12,000 observers, 11,516 are Mozambican – STAE

4:10 CAT | 08 Oct 2024

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Around 12,000 observers will monitor Wednesday’s general elections in Mozambique, the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) told Lusa today.

According to the STAE, 11,516 national observers and 412 international observers have to date been accredited to monitor the elections, including electoral observation missions from the EU, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), the African Union and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), among other organisations.

A total of 1,581 national and 10 international journalists are also accredited to monitor Wednesday’s vote.

Mozambique is holding its seventh presidential elections this Wednesday, in which the current head of state, Filipe Nyusi, who has reached the constitutional limit of two terms, is no longer running, simultaneously with the seventh legislative elections and the fourth elections for provincial assemblies and governors.

More than 17 million voters are registered to vote, including 333,839 registered abroad, according to data from the Mozambican National Electoral Commission.

The elections will involve more than 184,500 polling station staff, distributed across the country’s 154 districts (180,075) and outside the country (4,436).

On election day, there will be 8,737 polling stations in Mozambique and 334 abroad, corresponding to 25,725 polling station desks in the country and 602 polling stations abroad, each with seven members.

Source: Lusa