New CNE members: Parliament to elect Ad Hoc Commission tomorrow

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New CNE members: Parliament to elect Ad Hoc Commission tomorrow

4:03 CAT | 03 Nov 2020

File photo: O País

This Wednesday, the Assembly of the Republic (AR) will draw up the Ad Hoc Commission for the selection of the civil society members who will serve on the National Elections Commission (CNE).

The Ad hoc Commission, to be created by the plenary of the Assembly of the Republic and comprising three Frelimo deputies, one Renamo and one MDM deputy, will select seven civil society members for the electoral management body [CNE].

The CNE organic law (no30/2014 of 26 September) requires that it includes representatives of civil society organisations selected by public tender to be directed by the Ad Hoc Commission.

CNE members’ term of office is six years, and ends when the new members take office.

The CNE members currently serving are all term-expired, but their incumbency has been extended, amid some rancour, thanks to Frelimo and MDM votes in past sessions, Renamo’s parliamentary bench voting against.

At the time, the proponent of the proposal for the regularisation of the matter, in this case the parliament’s Standing Commission, seeks to the address a situation in which “the CNE functions under irregular conditions, which may affect the regularity of the electoral process and, on the other hand, in order not to disturb the course of the electoral process taking into account the crucial phase in which it finds itself”.

The National Elections Commission is made up of 17 members, seven of whom come from legally constituted civil society organisations, 10 from political parties with parliamentary seats, of which five from Frelimo, four from Renamo and one from MDM.

Currently, the CNE officials are Abdul Carimo, Paulo Cuinica, Jeremias Timana, José Belmiro, Rabia Valgy, Apolinário João and Salomão Moyana,coming from civil society; António Chipanga, Rodrigues Timba, Abílio Diruai and Eugenia Chipene, from Frelimo; Meque Brás, Latino Ligonha, Fernando Mazanga and Celestino Cruz, from Renamo; Bernabé Nkomo, from MDM; and Zuria Amisse from the government.

Source: Carta de Moçambique