The proposal, approved this Sunday by STAE and to which Lusa had access yesterday, sent, however, to the National Elections Commission (CNE), involves the repetition of the election in 18 polling stations in Nacala Porto, three in Milange, 13 in Gurúè and all 41 tables in Marromeu
Current legislation establishes that when the election of one or more polling stations is declared null, “the corresponding electoral acts are repeated until the second Sunday following the decision of the Constitutional Council, on a date to be fixed by the Council of Ministers, under CNE proposal”.
“In compliance with the legal provision mentioned above, regarding the nullity of the elections, we propose to Your Excellency that the repetition of the election in the referenced tables be held on December 10, 2023”, reads the STAE proposal to the CNE and which will be analyzed on Tuesday at the next meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The Mozambican Constitutional Council proclaimed, on Friday, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) as the winner of the municipal elections on 11 October in 56 municipalities, against the previous 64 announced by the CNE, with the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo, the largest opposition party) to win four, and had elections repeated in four others.
In the ruling released on Friday, that body decided “not to validate, due to the nullity of the election, all the voting carried out in the municipality of Marromeu”, Sofala province, and “not to validate the election and order the vote to be repeated” in two polling stations in Nacala Porto, with a total of 12,893 voters, in three assemblies in Milange, with a total of 2,397 voters, and in four assemblies in Gurué, with 5,747 voters.
According to the unanimously approved ruling, read by the president of the Constitutional Council, judge advisor Lúcia Ribeiro, Frelimo maintained its victory in the country’s two main cities, Maputo and Matola, in which Renamo claimed victory, despite cutting around 60 thousand votes the total allocated to the party in power. On October 26, Mozambique’s CNE, after carrying out the intermediate and general count, announced Frelimo’s victory in 64 of the 65 municipalities that went to vote.
In the ruling announcing the results, the Constitutional Council stated that “the evidence produced” and the “reverification of data” from the voting allowed Renamo, the main opposition party, to win in four municipalities in the municipal elections on October 11th.
With “the results that came from the rechecking of data”, and “according to the evidence produced”, the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) won in the municipalities of Quelimane, Alto Molócue, Chiúre, and Vilankulo. In the decision announced by the Constitutional Council, Renamo surpassed Frelimo in these four municipalities where it won with just one more seat, taking 23 seats in Quelimane, 12 in Alto Molócue, 17 in Chiúre and 12 in Quelimane.