The Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique approved on Wednesday 24 January a change to the voter registration calendar, making room for extending the dates for registering voters for the general elections on 9 October.
Meeting in an extraordinary session called for one day and with a single agenda item, the three caucuses that make up the Mozambican parliament approved in general, in special and by consensus the change to the registration period.
Last August, the head of state, Filipe Nyusi, announced that the 2024 general elections would be held on 9 October and that voter registration would run from 1 February to 16 March. However, the dates will be changed depending on this new approval.
According to Mozambican electoral legislation, the dates for voter registration are set by the government, on a proposal from the National Electoral Commission (CNE), and it is up to parliament to approve rules that set the deadlines that must be met by the electoral calendar.
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