Mtoa Taarifa
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Wananchi wanaodaiwa kutokubaliana na Matokeo ya Uchaguzi Mkuu katika maeneo ya Lalalua na Nampula wamechoma Moto Kituo cha Polisi cha Moma ikiwa ni mwendelezo wa Maandamano ya kupinga matokeo hayo
Imeelezwa kuwa Wananchi hao walichukua Silaha aina ya AK 47 na kuchoma majengo mengine zaidi yakiwemo ya Kamanda wa Polisi, Mkuu wa Utawala wa Kituo na Makao Makuu ya Frelimo, Pikipiki na Magari ya Polisi
Katika Uchaguzi huo uliofanyika mapema Oktoba 2024, Daniel Chapo wa Frelimo alipata 70% ya Kura huku mpinzani wake, Venancio Mondlane akiwa na 20%. Hata hivyo Mondlane amekata rufaa kupitia Mahakama ya Katiba akipinga akidai alipata 53.38% na Chapo ana 35.66%.
In response to a protest led by young people in Lulalua, Moma, Nampula the Moma district police command sent reinforcements which could not contain the protest. All the police officers who were sent to restore order fled, and the local command was set on fire, including motorbikes and a police vehicle.
Lalaua residents said that the population seized an AK 47 firearm abandoned by the police. The houses of the commander, the head of the administrative post, and the headquarters of the Frelimo party was also set on fire.
The operation began in the late evening and lasted through the night, with the population identifying the homes of local police officers. The police had all fled and there were no reports of houses of individual police being set on fire. There were no shots and no attacks by the police.
The demonstrators released all their detainees.
The Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), which supported the independent candidate Venancio Mondlane, in the presidential election of 9 October, has published its parallel count of the votes, which gives a clear victory to Mondlane and to Podemos itself.
The results from the parallel count, for the four presidential candidates, were as follows:
Lutero Simango (MDM): 379,247 (4.92 per cent)
Daniel Chapo (Frelimo): 2,906,601 (35.66 per cent)
Venancio Mondlane (independent): 4,419,040 (53.38 per cent)
Ossufo Momade (Renamo) 539,515 (6.04 per cent)
It is quite impossible to reconcile these figures with the official results released last Thursday by the National Elections Commission (CNE). According to these results, Chapo enjoyed an overwhelming victory with over 70 per cent of the votes, with Mondlane a distant runner-up, with 20.3 per cent.
In the parliamentary election, Podemos claimed that its parallel count gives it a sizeable majority in the new parliament. It will have 138 out of the 250 seats, compared with 91 for Frelimo, 12 for Renamo and seven for the MDM.
By comparison, the CNE’s official results allocated 195 seats to Frelimo, and just 55 to the opposition forces.
The parallel count forms part of the Podemos appeal against the results to the Constitutional Council, Mozambique’s highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law. But it should be noted that, just like the CNE’s results, the Podemos count is not accompanied by any polling station results sheets (“editais”).
Podemos says it has most of the genuine editais, but so far it has not published them. It is possible, however, that the results sheets are included in the vast amount of documentation that Podemos has submitted to the Constitutional Council, and that the Council will consider them.
Without the editais, it would be unwise to declare either the CNE’s results or the Podemos parallel count as correct.
Podemos admits that it does not have all the editais. The Podemos count is of 71.7 per cent of the polling stations. Although Podemos believed this is “a very credible sample”, it falls well short of 100 per cent.
Podemos says it could not cover all the polling stations because in some cases the electoral bodies refused to issue credentials for its monitors, in others the credentials were stolen and the CNE refused to issue new ones, and in still others the credentials were for districts other than the ones requested.
At some polling stations, the staff illegally refused to announce the results of the count or to sign the results sheets (“editais”).
Worse still, there were cases where the results of the count were fraudulently altered. In others, the editais from different polling stations were filled in and signed by the same person. Such clearly fake results sheets could not be used for the parallel count.
Podemos says it is appending the “manifestly fraudulent minutes and editais” in its appeal to the Constitutional Council as proof of election fraud.
