The Mozambican President said on Monday that "threats of sabotage" of infrastructure - in reference to the challenge to the election results called by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane - did not go down "very well" with Mozambicans, recalling that the country has laws to obey.
"The moment that followed of threats of sabotage to some entities and institutions, bodies, in an open manner, that moment did not go down very well with our society, in which threats were made about this or that", declared the President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi.
The Mozambican President was speaking in Maputo during a reception for representatives of the March 8 Generation Association, stating that, after the announcement of the results of the October 9 elections by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), "different types of statements" followed.
"I don't want to judge at this point, but there were also moments when there were proclamations of victory, in different ways of demonstrating, which is not bad for someone to think that they would win or will win, this happens in different ways, but the guidelines exist, the regulations exist and are obeyed", he warned.
On Friday, Mozambique experienced the third day of the so-called "third phase" of the fourth stage of strikes and demonstrations to contest the election results called by Venâncio Mondlane, who denies the victory of Daniel Chapo, supported by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, in power), with 70.67% of the votes, as announced by the CNE.
According to the CNE, Mondlane came in second place, with 20.32%, but he stated that he did not recognize the results, which still have to be validated and proclaimed by the Constitutional Council, which has no deadline for this purpose and is still analyzing the dispute.
Mondlane said that the protests will continue "until the electoral truth is restored" and called for three days of "banging pots and pans" - which end today, between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm local time -, which have been heard throughout the country, from balconies and windows, and which have degenerated into new outbreaks of violence in the streets.
After street protests that paralyzed the country on October 21, 24 and 25, Mondlane once again called on the population to a general strike lasting seven days, starting on October 31, with nationwide protests and a demonstration concentrated in Maputo on the 7th, which caused chaos in the capital, with several barricades, burning tires and gunfire and tear gas fired by the police throughout the day.
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