Mozambique: Voter registration for October local elections to be delayed – Hanlon

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Mozambique: Voter registration for October local elections to be delayed – Hanlon

8:10 CAT | 19 Feb 2018

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The new registration is supposed to start on 1 March and continue for 60 days (to 28 April), but this overlaps with the Nampula by-election, so the CNE has proposed a delay, starting on either 16 or 20 March. The earlier date causes less disruption to the electoral calendar but registration would start before the announcement of the Nampula result.

Registration will take place in all districts which have one of the 53 municipalities – more than half the country. A majority of CNE members voted against the obvious proposal to delay registration only in Nampula, so it must be delayed in all 53 districts.

The reason to want the delay at least in Nampula is that to vote in the by-election, a person must have a voters card from the 2013/14 elections, and the new voters card would not be valid for the Nampula by-election election.

Source: 2018 Local Elections - 16  / Mozambique Political Process Bulletin