Mozambique Elections: Chapo and Frelimo win in Manica province

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Mozambique Elections: Chapo and Frelimo win in Manica province

2:58 CAT | 14 Oct 2024

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Presidential candidate Daniel Chapo and Frelimo, which supports his candidacy, won Wednesday’s general elections in the province of Manica, central Mozambique, according to the announcement of provisional results made today.

According to the results presented by the Provincial Electoral Commission of Manica – the eighth largest electoral district in the country, with 893,426 registered voters – Daniel Chapo, supported by the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo, the ruling party), won with 354,322 votes (66.71%), followed by Venâncio Mondlane, supported by the extra-parliamentary Optimist Party for Development (Podemos), with 130,925 votes (24.65%).

In third place was Ossufo Momade, supported by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the largest opposition party, with 31,867 votes (6%), and finally Lutero Simango, supported by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), the third parliamentary force, with 14,027 votes (2.64%).

According to the electoral commission, in the vote for the legislative elections, in which 250 deputies are to be elected – of which 17 will be elected by the Manica constituency – the first four places are occupied by Frelimo, with 341,636 votes (67.38%), Podemos, with 77,681 votes (15.52%), Renamo, with 47,122 votes (9.10%) and the MDM, with 14,764 votes (2.91%).

In the provincial assemblies, whose winning candidate is elected provincial governor, Frelimo also leads, with 382,743 votes (76.29%), followed by Renamo, with 71,449 (14.24%), and the MDM, with 47,504 votes (9.47%), according to the same results released today.

Wednesday’s general elections included the seventh presidential elections – in which the current head of state, Filipe Nyusi, who has reached the constitutional limit of two terms, has not run – at the same time as the seventh legislative elections and the fourth elections for provincial assemblies and governors.

According to electoral legislation, the provincial results should be counted by the end of today, with the count in all 154 districts of the country having been completed over the weekend.

The publication of the results of the presidential election by the National Electoral Commission, if there is no second round, takes up to 15 days (counted from the closing of the polls), before they are sent for validation by the Constitutional Council, which has no deadline to proclaim the official results after analysing possible appeals.

The vote included legislative elections for the national parliament (250 deputies) and for provincial assemblies and their respective governors, in this case with 794 seats to be distributed.

All these results are still provisional, awaiting confirmation by the National Elections Commission (CNE), and eventual validation by the Constitutional Council

Source: Lusa