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Renamo, Mozambique’s main opposition party, yesterday filed an appeal with the National Election Commission (CNE) destined to the Constitutional Council (CC), calling for the annulment of the results of the general election, and calling the poll a “circus”.
“We want the annulment of the elections, because they were not elections. They were a caricature, a circus show,” said Venâncio Mondlane, representative of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) to the electoral bodies.
Venâncio Mondlane was speaking to reporters after Renamo handed in its election results appeal to the CNE.
“We did a survey of the extremely serious irregularities, illicit acts and even crimes that occurred during the voter registration, the campaign, the voting and, lastly, the superlative shame that took place on the day of the results,” Mondlane said.
Renamo’s appeal yesterday collated 155 complaints it filed in district courts against electoral wrongdoing, Mondlane added.
Illicit acts include the registration of minors and foreign voters and multiple voter registration in Gaza province, southern Mozambique, the stuffing of ballot boxes with ballot papers outside the supervision of the electoral bodies and the destruction of votes in favour of the opposition.
“Voting day was the big show. For example, in Meconta, everything happened: ballot box stuffing, opposition ballot papers rendered illegal, illegal arrests and police assaults on our candidacy delegates,” Mondlane said.
The Renamo representative considers the tabulation and centralisation of the results of the general elections by the CNE on the 25th of this month null and void, arguing that it should have taken place in the presence of the representatives of the political parties, journalists and interested voters.
“The session that approved the deliberation is an illegal and illegitimate session; it was a null session and has no effect,” Mondlane said.
The election results announced by the CNE in Maputo on Sunday gave the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) a big advantage, with its candidate, Filipe Nyusi, re-elected on the first voting round for a second term as president, with 73% of the vote.
Frelimo was able to elect 184 out of 250 deputies, 73.6% of parliament seats, with 60 seats (24%) for the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) and six seats (2.4%) for the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the CNE announced.
The MDM, Mozambique’s third-largest parliamentary party, has already announced that it will also appeal to the Constitutional Council over the results of the general elections.
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