Presidential candidate Lutero Simango, supported by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), announced today his intention to submit a document to challenge the results of Wednesday's elections, considering that "many irregularities" were recorded.
"We have instructed our commission to begin a full legal process (...), we will present the appropriate complaints, including the electoral challenge", declared Lutero Simango, president of the MDM, at a press conference in Maputo.
According to the MDM, the third force with seats in parliament in Mozambique, Wednesday's general elections were marked by "many irregularities and manipulation", highlighting an alleged illegal detention of a member of that party at one of the polling stations in Ribaué, in the province of Nampula, in the north of the country.
"He has been detained since October 9, by order of the district director of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration [STAE]. There is no case against him", he added.
Lutero Simango also said that the party's parallel count shows that the political force will remain in parliament, promising that the results will be announced as soon as the count is completed, which is now at 80%.
"We have the minutes and the notices and, internally, we will continue with our parallel count", stressed the Mozambican politician.
In the current Mozambican parliament, the MDM, which also governs the third largest municipality in the country (the city of Beira), has six of the 250 seats, the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, the ruling party) holds a qualified majority, with 184, followed by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo, the main opposition party), with 60 deputies.
Wednesday's general elections included the seventh presidential elections - in which the current head of state, Filipe Nyusi, who has reached the constitutional limit of two terms, has no longer run - simultaneously with the seventh legislative elections and the fourth elections for provincial assemblies and governors.
According to electoral legislation, the tabulation of provincial results should be completed by the end of today, with the tabulation at the level of the country's 154 districts having been completed over the weekend.
The publication of the results of the presidential election by the National Electoral Commission, if there is no second round, takes up to 15 days (counted after the polls close), before they are sent for validation by the Constitutional Council, which has no deadline to proclaim the official results after analyzing possible appeals.
The voting included legislative elections (250 deputies) and for provincial assemblies and respective provincial governors, in this case with 794 mandates to be distributed.
The CNE approved lists of 35 political parties running for the Assembly of the Republic and 14 political parties and groups of citizens voting for the provincial assemblies.
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