Mozambique Elections: CC clarifies that only from 24 December can it proclaim the winners of the elections- A Verdade

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Mozambique Elections: CC clarifies that only from 24 December can it proclaim the winners of the elections- A Verdade

4:01 CAT | 26 Nov 2024

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The Constitutional Council has reported that its judges, six of whom were appointed by the Frelimo party, “have been the target of threats, including death threats” and has clarified that it can only proclaim the winners of the 7th General Election and 4th Provincial Election as from December 24, as the newspaper @Verdade had anticipated.

On the eve of the meeting between the outgoing President of Mozambique and the four candidates for the 7th presidential elections, “to discuss the country’s situation in the post-election period”, the only body with the power to validate the results announced by the National Electoral Commission and proclaim the next President of Mozambique clarified: “Although no deadline is set, either in the Organic Law of the Constitutional Council or in the electoral laws, for the completion of the process of validation and proclamation of the election results, paragraph 2 of article 184 of the Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique establishes that the first session of the Assembly of the Republic shall take place up to twenty days after the validation and proclamation of the election results”.

“Taking into account the fact that the current legislature took office on January 12, 2020 and that it, under the terms of paragraph 1 of article 184 of the Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique, has a duration of five years, we are faced with a constitutional time constraint that requires its strict observance by this body,” explains the Constitutional Council, a body composed of seven Judges, six of whom were appointed by Frelimo, with only Albino Augusto Nhacassa being appointed by Renamo.

This means that the restoration of the “electoral truth”, which the Constitutional Council says it “has been working hard to achieve”, can only happen from 24 December, as has been the tradition.

The results of the 2019 general elections were proclaimed on 23 December, those of the General Election of 15 October 2014 on 30 December, and the winners of the General Election of 28 October 2009 were only known on 28 December of that year.

Furthermore, the Constitutional Council regrets, in a press release signed by the presiding judge Lúcia Ribeiro, this Monday (25), that “the Council Judges have been the target of threats, including death threats, sent by private messages or published on social networks. However, threats and intimidation are not weapons of democracy, but rather constitutive elements of a legal type of crime”.

Source: A Verdade