Mozambique Elections: Daniel Chapo and Frelimo win in Nampula province – Watch

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Mozambique Elections: Daniel Chapo and Frelimo win in Nampula province – Watch

1:16 CAT | 15 Oct 2024

Photo: O País

Presidential candidate Daniel Chapo and the party that supports him, Frelimo, won the general elections held on the 9th October in Nampula province, the largest electoral constituency in Mozambique, the Provincial Electoral Commission announced on Monday (14-10).

According to the results tabulation notice read by Daniel Ramos, president of the Provincial Electoral Commission of Nampula, Daniel Chapo won with 504,786 votes, corresponding to 59.58% of the votes, followed by Venâncio Mondlane, supported by the extra-parliamentary Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), with 216,826 votes (25.59%).

In third place was Ossufo Momade, supported by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo, the main opposition party, with 94,606 votes (11.97%), and finally Lutero Simango, supported by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM, the third parliamentary party), with 31,070 votes, corresponding to 3.67%.

According to the Provincial Elections Commission, in the vote for the legislative elections, in which 250 deputies are to be elected – of which 48 will be elected by the Nampula constituency – the first four places are occupied as follows: Frelimo, with 466,542 votes (57.93%), Podemos, with 156,631 votes (19.04%), Renamo, with 106,649 votes (12.96%) and the MDM, with 31,342 (3.86%).

In the provincial assemblies – where the winning candidate is elected provincial governor – Frelimo also leads, with 59.11% of the votes, followed by Podemos, 18.89%; Renamo, 14.21%; and the MDM, 3.97%.

80% abstention rate

Voting in the province of Nampula registered an abstention rate of around 80%, with only 28.41% of a total of just over 3.2 million registered voters voting.

According to electoral legislation, the provincial results should have been counted by the end of Monday, with the count in the country’s 154 districts 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 after the polls close), before they are sent for validation by the Constitutional Council, which has no deadline to proclaim the official results after examining any appeals.

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

The CNE approved lists of 35 political parties running for the Assembly of the Republic and 14 political parties and groups of citizens voting for the provincial assemblies.