This year’s general elections in Mozambique will cost almost 20 billion meticals (€289 million), the National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced on Thursday.
“The updated budget to support the costs of holding the seventh general, presidential and legislative elections and the fourth for members of the provincial assemblies and the provincial governor, scheduled for 9 October this year, is 19,993,186,146 meticais,” the CNE said in a statement.
Of this amount, more than 6.5 billion (€95 million) have already been made available, it added
The CNE said that preparations are currently underway for voter registration, which will take place between 15 March and 28 April in Mozambique and between 30 March and 28 April abroad.
The electoral body expects to enrol more than seven million people this year in a process that will include the creation of, among others, 9,165 registration posts and 6,330 brigades, and the distribution of some of the material for the process is underway across the country.
“Preparatory activities for the electoral census are underway, and the projected number of voters due to vote, i.e. including those who registered when the local elections were held on 11 October 2023, is 16,497,501,” said Paulo Cuinica, spokesman for the CNE, during a press conference in Porto today.
According to the spokesman, of the total expected voters, 16,217,816 are in Mozambique and the remaining 279,685 are abroad.
Mozambique is holding general elections on 9 October this year, including presidential elections, which the current head of state and leader of the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Filipe Nyusi, can no longer run in because he has reached the constitutional limit of two terms in office.
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