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General Protests: ‘Decide’ Electoral Platform Counts At Least 22 Deaths in Three Days

General Protests: ‘Decide’ Electoral Platform Counts At Least 22 Deaths in Three Days

The Decide electoral platform estimated on Saturday 16 November that 22 people died, more than half in Maputo, in three days of demonstrations to contest the results of the 9 October general elections, as well as 23 people shot and 80 arrested.

According to the report released by the election monitoring platform Decide, cited by Lusa, which includes data from the three days – 13, 14 and 15 November – of the new phase of protests called by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, seven deaths were recorded in Nampula province (North), two in Zambézia (Centre), nine in Maputo province (South) and four in the capital city.

Of the total of 23 people shot, ten were at protests in Nampula, three in Zambézia, another three in Manica (Centre), as well as three in Maputo province and another four in Maputo city, the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) said.

The platform also counts 80 detainees, 18 of them in Maputo (city and province), and 23 in Zambézia.

On Friday (15), Mozambique experienced the third day of the first stage of the fourth round of stoppages and demonstrations to contest the election results called by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who denies the victory of Daniel Chapo, supported by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, in power), with 70.67 per cent of the votes.

Already today (16), Venâncio Mondlane said that he would publicise a new phase of protests on Tuesday, insisting that these are to be maintained ‘until the electoral truth is restored’.

According to the CNE, Mondlane came second with 20.32%, but the candidate said he did not recognise the results, which still have to be validated and proclaimed by the Constitutional Council, which has no deadlines for this and is still analysing the dispute.

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