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Mozambique Elections: CC gives CNE 72 hours to explain voter discrepancies
5:09 CAT | 06 Nov 2024
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Mozambique’s Constitutional Council (CC) has given the National Electoral Commission (CNE) 72 hours to clarify discrepancies in the number of voters in the three elections that took place on 9 October.
“The National Electoral Commission, in the person of its president, is hereby notified to clarify to this body the reasons for the discrepancy in the number of voters between the three elections (presidential, legislative and provincial assembly)”, reads a dispatch from the CC, issued on Tuesday, to which Lusa had access today.
According to the CC, the discrepancies are contained in the file, sent by the CNE itself to that body, of the minutes of the general counting of the results of the general elections.
On October 24, the CNE announced the victory of Daniel Chapo, supported by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, the party in power since 1975) in the election for President of the Republic on October 9, with 70.67% of the votes, in which the party strengthened its parliamentary majority, increasing from 184 to 195 deputies (out of 250), and elected all 10 provincial governors of the country.
Before announcing the centralized results of the general count, the president of the CNE, Carlos Matsinhe, explained that “throughout the day of voting and the vote counting process” “several contentious proceedings had been instituted in the judicial courts”, as well as “some channeled to the Constitutional Council”.
“These processes are expected to result in the appropriate decisions. However, the CNE is required by law to announce the results of the vote within 15 days of the vote (…), we could not wait for the decisions on these disputes”, he explained, admitting that these decisions “may have an impact on the results” announced at the time.
“The announcement of the results does not conclude the entire process, until the results have been validated and the winners have been declared”, added Matsinhe.
On 30 October, the Constitutional Council gave the CNE eight days to send the body the minutes and notices of the vote in Maputo and in six provinces, in order to validate the election results of 9 October, which have been contested by the opposition.
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The Mozambican Bar Association (OAM) said today that annulling the elections is “one of the equations that should be on the table” in the dialogue that the institution advocates to stop the violence.
“What we are saying is that there is no reliable data, no data that can lead us to a decision that brings electoral justice. Therefore, annulling the elections is also one of the equations that must be on the table, naturally, in these negotiations”, stated the president of the OAM, in a press conference.
On the occasion, the OAM president called on the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, to start a “genuine dialogue” with everyone, including presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, assuming the availability of the OAM to mediate the process.
Demonstrations, mostly violent, have been recorded throughout the country, contesting the results of the October elections, after the presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who claims victory, called for strikes.
After street protests that paralyzed the country, Mondlane once again called on the population to a seven-day general strike, starting on October 31, with nationwide protests that have degenerated into violence and police intervention, and a demonstration concentrated in Maputo called for this Thursday.
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Source: Lusa
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