Mozambique Elections: Renamo submits appeal against CC ruling validating local elections – O País

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Mozambique Elections: Renamo submits appeal against CC ruling validating local elections – O País

3:12 CAT | 13 Dec 2023

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Renamo is demanding the annulment of the Constitutional Council ruling that validates and proclaims the results of the local elections held on October 11th. To this end, the party’s head of list in the City of Maputo this Tuesday submitted an appeal to the Attorney General’s Office, with a contingent of the police in attendance.

Venâncio Mondlane and his party (Renamo) insist on challenging the results of the last municipal elections in the country’s capital.

This Tuesday, Renamo returned to the Attorney General’s Office to submit an appeal seeking the annulment of the Constitutional Council judgement proclaiming the result of the vote on October 11th.

Everything was going well until Venâncio Mondlane and his team went to the PGR facilities.

Journalists were prevented from entering, and a police contingent positioned itself outside the PGR while the process unfolded.

Without giving any reason, the police prevented journalists from filming or conducting interviews near the institution, which for Mondlane itself constituted a violation of rights.

“There is no need for this apparatus. This is a violation of the right to information and of the press itself,” he commented.

But none of this prevented Renamo from submitting its appeal.

“We have submitted an extraordinary appeal, requesting that the PGR order that the ruling proclaiming the results of the local elections be annulled,” said Renamo representative Glória Salvador.

Mondlane said that he was aware that the decisions of the Constitutional Council cannot in theory be appealed, but that he remained hopeful that he would succeed in his purpose.

“The rulings of the Constitutional Council are unappealable. But if the body takes a decision that goes beyond its powers and violates some basic principle, such as justice and equality, it means that the ruling was made in violation of the law and the Constitution of the Republic,” he explained.

According to the leader of the Renamo list, the Constitutional Council’s ruling contains just such errors.

“Firstly, the ruling contains the defect of usurpation of legislative power, as it usurped the powers of the Assembly of the Republic. The second is the lack of justification, which even the Supreme Court has already referred to.”

Venâncio Mondlane reiterated that protest marches would continue, with the last for this year scheduled for Saturday (16-12).

Source: O País