Mozambique Elections: Podemos says it submitted minutes and notices from all of the provinces to the CC

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Mozambique Elections: Podemos says it submitted minutes and notices from all of the provinces to the CC

3:53 CAT | 05 Dec 2024

The Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos) says it has submitted minutes and notices for all provinces from the elections held on October 9th to the Constitutional Council, through the National Elections Commission (CNE).

In a statement contradicting information broadcast on Tuesday by a private television channel according to which Podmeos had only sent notices from seven provinces to the CNE, the political party explains that, initially, it presented the minutes and notices from seven provinces and later from another three provinces. According to the note, the information broadcast reported that minutes and notices from Niassa, Cabo Delgado and Gaza had not been submitted.

READ: Mozambique Elections: CC crosschecks minutes and notices handed in by the CNE with those handed in by the parties – O País report

The first batch of minutes and notices from seven provinces was delivered to the CC on 27 October, three days after the centralised results were released by the CNE. The party says that, “due to the imperative need to comply with legal deadlines, it protested to deliver later” the second batch of minutes and notices from three provinces, namely Niassa, Nampula and Sofala, and this occurred on 30 October.

Along with the statement, the party attached the contentious appeals submitted to the CC through the CNE. In this sense, it notes that “it has been proven that the CNE received these documents in full, and there is no reason attributable to Podemos for the CC to claim inaction on its part”.

Podemos says that it submitted these documents to the CC in its “vertical” commitment to contribute to electoral truth, and that either the CNE or the CC “is lying to the Mozambican people”, arguing that the political parties should cross-check the data.

Source: Mznews