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1:21 CAT | 18 Jul 2024
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- The National Elections Commission (CNE) has just announced that irregularities in the candidacy of the Democratic Alliance Coalition (CAD) have led to its rejection.
The Mozambican National Elections Commission (CNE) has excluded the Democratic Alliance Coalition (CAD), which supports the presidential candidacy of politician Venâncio Mondlane, from the October general elections, because it failed to meet the legal requirements, this electoral body announced today.
“The closed multi-member lists of candidacies from the Democratic Alliance Coalition are rejected as a result of not meeting the established legal requirements for the presentation of candidacies, which results in the nullity of the candidacy process,” CNE spokesperson Paulo Cuinica said, reading the consensus deliberation on the verification of the applications received.
According to the same deliberation, released today in Maputo, the agreement for the constitution of the CAD was approved on April 27 by the political parties Padres, Palmo, Panade, Partonamo, PNDM and PRD, but after the delivery of missing documentation, the electoral body reported that two of these parties were not included in the new agreement, without the respective act proving the change, as legally required.
The CNE also states that it has been established that the CAD is constituted as a “legal person independent of the other political organizations” that comprise it, in violation of what is established in the electoral legislation, also justifying the exclusion.
The CNE received registration applications for the October 9 general elections from 35 political parties, a coalition of parties and two groups of citizens. These are the legislative and for governors and provincial assemblies. The CNE received a total of 9,167 individual candidacy files for the Assembly of the Republic and 9,893 for members of the provincial assemblies.
The lists of 35 political parties running for the Assembly of the Republic and 14 political parties and groups of citizens for the provincial assemblies were approved by the CNE, which also approved the exclusion of the CAD lists.
On July 5, Mozambican politician Venâncio Mondlane accused the CNE of “engineering manoeuvres” in order to reject the CAD coalition’s lists.
“They are trying to make the candidacy unfeasible with the argument that the coalition was asked to address some irregularities, creating manoeuvers, claiming that the ‘averbamento’ [entry into an existing registration document] of CAD should be made, which is a huge contradiction,” Mondlane said.
He added at the time that the CNE intended to reject the CAD’s candidate lists for the October 9 elections, alleging irregularities detected at the time of registration with that body.
“There is no ‘averbamento’ of a coalition, because it is the result of an agreement. These are parties that reach an agreement to form a common front for an electoral period,” Mondlane said, adding that the “pact” that is made in the formation of the coalition ends after the end of the electoral cycle.
“What’s more, it doesn’t make sense to carry out the averbamento of the CAD, because it has no legal personality and the law says that those who must have the averbamemto are the parties that are part of the collective and not the coalition,” the politician added, reiterating that the CNE would be “violating the Constitution of the Mozambican Republic and the electoral law”.
READ: Mozambique Elections: Venâncio Mondlane says CNE ‘engineering manoeuvres’ – Watch
Venâncio Mondlane stated that these were the “un-confessable desires” of some members of the CNE, but warned of a possible “popular revolt” if the candidacy of the CAD lists were rejected. “Although they are used to humiliating the people at will, theh will not accept that CAD’s candidacy is rejected for reasons that have no legal basis,” Mondlance commented.
Venâncio Mondlane, 50 years old, was a candidate for the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) in the last [2023] municipal elections for the Maputo municipality, but abandoned the party of which he had been a member since 2018 – and the position of deputy for which he had been elected – after of not having succeeded in running for leadership of the largest opposition party at the May congress.
On June 24, the Constitutional Council approved the candidacies of Daniel Chapo, supported by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), in power; Ossufo Momade, supported by Renamo, the largest opposition party; Lutero Simango, supported by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), third parliamentary force[ and Venâncio Mondlane, supported by CAD, for the position of President of the Republic.
The presidential elections will take place simultaneously with the legislative elections and elections for governors and provincial assemblies.
Source: Lusa
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