Renamo supporters gather in Maputo after election results are announced

Renamo’s candidate for the municipality of Maputo, Venancio Mondlane, announced this Thursday the gathering of supporters in the delegation of the largest opposition party on Friday, during the announcement of the election results by the Constitutional Council (CC).

The goal is to hear “confirmation of Renamo’s victory in the city of Maputo,” Venancio Mondlane said at the end of another march through the Mozambican capital against the results announced by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), which gave the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) a 64 out of 65 victory municipalities, voting on October 11.

Once the final results are announced, Mondlane said, “next steps” will be determined.

In Maputo, the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) candidate insists that he won the election with 55% of the vote, based on a parallel vote count based on original protocols and notifications from polling stations, but the CNE declared the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) candidate to have won ) Frelimo, Razak Manik.

“In Maputo, according to protocols and actual notifications, 98,000 votes were taken from Renamo and attributed to Frelimo. This is terrible,” Venancio Mondlane criticized at another protest march this week, asking the Central Committee to “fulfill its role.”

The streets of some Mozambican cities, including Maputo, have been gripped by successive opposition demonstrations described as a “rejection” of “mega-fraud” in the October 11 municipal election process, which have been heavily criticized by civil society and non-politicians. government organizations., the purpose of several resources for the Central Committee.

The President of Mozambique’s Constitutional Court, Counselor Judge Lucia Ribeiro, will announce the “final results” of the sixth local elections on Friday in Maputo, the organization announced today.

In a note sent to Lusa, the CC, the final appellate body of the electoral process, said the results will be announced at 11:00 local time (09:00 in Lisbon) at the Cultural Center of Mozambique (China). , to Maputo.

The announcement of the final results came after the CNE completed delivery of all local election notices and protocols requested by the Central Committee on Wednesday morning.

“Everything has already been delivered in full,” CNE spokesman Paulo Quinica said on Wednesday, stressing that the CC will “decide on the validity or invalidity of the notifications sent.”

“If there are invalid notifications, the Constitutional Court will definitely find these notifications,” he said.

A CNE spokesman explained that the Central Committee requested “notifications of partial results” made at the table on voting day, which are “always under the control of the provincial commissions.”

“CNE has carried out the calculation using the protocols and notifications that they are required to use, which are taken from the interim count that is carried out at the local authority level. These notifications, yes, are sent to the CNE,” he also said.

Quinica insisted that the body was not aware of the existence of erroneous protocols and notifications, but stressed that the assessment would depend on the Central Committee: “We have no information, we have not seen these erroneous protocols. What the Central Committee asked for was provided.” “Therefore, the Central Committee will check the authenticity or not of these documents. And we believe that the Central Committee will double-check with other sources that not only the documents were delivered from the NNE. We are probably one of those who were asked to present the documents.”

In addition to the CNE, the CC has requested protocols and notifications from parties participating in the municipal elections, and Renamo and MDM have publicly stated that they have already provided them.

Renamo, the largest opposition party, which in the previous 53 municipalities (12 municipalities were created this year) was in the lead in eight, was left without any municipality, despite the fact that it declared victory in the country’s largest cities, based on the initial protocols and notifications, the assembly votes by appealing to the Central Committee, the final court of appeal in the electoral process.