The pages of Mozambique’s National Electoral Commission were the target of a ‘cyber attack’ on Sunday morning. This was announced by the electoral management and administration body, the consequences of which have yet to be determined.
The National Electoral Commission made the attack on its pages public in a statement, but guarantees that ‘it has already regained control and is strengthening security mechanisms’.
According to the organisation, the attack took place this morning and, without giving any further details, the CNE says that the ‘consequences are yet to be determined’.
‘The electoral bodies have already regained control and are strengthening security mechanisms,’ it reads.
Meanwhile, the CNE is being criticised by the Podemos party, which supports Venâncio Mondlane’s presidential candidacy in the general elections on 9 October, after receiving a letter from the Manjacaze district election commission in Gaza. Under this letter, the party must indicate within three days the number of tables at which its candidate delegates will work. According to Podemos representative Elvino Dias, this requirement is illegal and has only one objective:
‘This obligation does not derive from the law. It is an artifice aimed at making it impossible for our candidate delegates to supervise the process. That’s why, so as not to spoil the party, we’ve asked the National Electoral Commission to guide all the district committees to comply with the law.
More than 17 million Mozambicans go to the polls on 9 October for the seventh presidential elections, in which the current head of state, Filipe Nyusi, who has reached the constitutional limit of two terms, is no longer running, at the same time as the seventh legislative elections and the fourth for provincial assemblies and governors.
Running for the Presidency of the Republic are Daniel Chapo, supported by the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Ossufo Momade, supported by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the largest opposition party, Lutero Simango, supported by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), the third party represented in parliament, and Venâncio Mondlane, supported by the Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), which has no parliamentary representation.
Source: RFI
