Mozambique Elections: Vote tabulation must be ‘credible, transparent’ – US Embassy

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Mozambique Elections: Vote tabulation must be ‘credible, transparent’ – US Embassy

5:27 CAT | 18 Oct 2024

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: U.S. Embassy in Mozambique/Facebook]

The United States Embassy in Maputo on Friday praised the peaceful way in which Mozambicans voted in the general elections on 9 October, which is why the tabulation of results must be “credible and transparent”.

“The U.S. Embassy commends Mozambican citizens for peacefully exercising their right to vote in Mozambique’s seventh multiparty general elections..” reads a message published on the diplomatic representation’s official Facebook account.

“They, therefore, deserve from the CNE/STAE [National Electoral Commission/Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration] a credible and transparent tabulation that accurately upholds their constitutional right to determine their leaders.,” the message adds.

The U.S. Embassy commends Mozambican citizens for peacefully exercising their right to vote in Mozambique’s seventh multiparty general elections. They, therefore, deserve from the CNE/STAE a credible and transparent tabulation that accurately upholds their constitutional right to… pic.twitter.com/qQSHNAE2Hv

— Embaixada dos EUA em Moçambique (@USEmbassyMoz) October 18, 2024

The general elections on 9 October included the seventh presidential elections – for which the current head of state, Filipe Nyusi, who has reached the two-term limit, was no longer running – at the same time as the seventh legislative elections and the fourth elections for provincial assemblies and governors.

The CNE has 15 days after the polls close to announce the official results of the elections, a date that falls on 24 October, after which the Constitutional Council will proclaim the results, once it has also concluded its analysis of any appeals, but with no deadline set for this.

The district and provincial election commissions have already completed the tabulation of the vote in the general elections on 9 October, which according to public announcements give the advantage to the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, the ruling party) and the presidential candidate that the party supports, Daniel Chapo, with more than 60% of the vote, although presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane disputes these results, using the data from the original minutes and notices of the vote, which he is collecting throughout the country.

Venâncio Mondlane said on Thursday in Beira, central Mozambique, that after the results of the general elections are announced he will appeal to the Constitutional Council with the original minutes and notices of the vote.

“At the moment we are aggregating the original public notices at national level. We’re making copies, we’re scanning them, so that we have a digital record of all the material, and we’re sending them little by little to Maputo, to see if after the CNE announces the national results we’ll be in a position to quickly submit an appeal to the Constitutional Council,” he said, speaking to journalists.

Source: Lusa