Podemos has denied the Constitutional Council of Mozambique, which announced that the party had not submitted any appeal to this body to claim the victory of its presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, in the general elections on 9 October.
The denial was made by the extra-parliamentary party’s legal adviser, Dinis Tivane, who explains that the way the appeal was written could give rise to different readings, but guarantees that the deliberation relates to the centralisation of all elections.
“The way our appeal is written may tend to give that impression, but it turns out that, for legal reasons, we are responding to deliberation 105 of the CNE [National Electoral Commission] and the title of this deliberation relates to the centralisation of all elections. In other words, presidential, legislative and provincial elections, which is more than enough reason to realise that the allegation that Podemos failed to respond or failed to appeal in relation to some elections cannot stand,’ he explained.
The presidential candidate’s adviser, Venâncio Mondlane, also denounced the fact that the Constitutional Council had refused to consider the case of the need to annul an election that included the illegal votes of Zimbabwean citizens.
“Citizens without electoral capacity, who are not Mozambicans (…) and voted . We have now learnt that the Constitutional Council will judge our appeal to be untimely, so it will not consider the appeal,” said Dinis Tivane
The extra-parliamentary party, which supports the presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, defends the continuity of the demonstrations until the electoral truth is restored.
Protesters shut down power stations
Two power stations in Mozambique were shut down on Saturday 7 December by protesters, announced the public operator Electricidade de Moçambique.
‘As part of the protests taking place across the country, a group of demonstrators went to the Ressano Garcia and Gigawatt thermoelectric power stations, demanding the total closure of energy production,“ explained the producer and distributor in a statement sent to AFP.
At least 90 people have died in Mozambique in the violence that has continued since the general elections on 9 October, marked by multiple irregularities, the local civil society movement Plataforma Decide announced on Friday.
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