The presidential candidate of the Democratic Alliance Coalition (CAD) said today in Maputo that the group of political parties will appeal the decision of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) to reject the party's candidacy for the general elections on October 9. "We are going to appeal to the Constitutional Council".

This morning in Maputo, the CNE announced the rejection of CAD's candidacy to run for election as members of the Provincial Assemblies and deputies to the Assembly of the Republic.

Speaking this afternoon at Maputo International Airport after his arrival from Niassa province, Venâncio Mondlane also said that it is not the CNE's competence to decide on the nullity of candidacies, and that the deliberation presented today tends to be political and not properly legal.

"From the point of view of constructing a legal argument, it has some of the most basic errors and I believe that the Constitutional Council will certainly grant our appeal. I can tell you now that we are going to appeal to the Constitutional Council because we had already planned to do so," he told journalists.

In Venâncio Mondlane's view, the CNE's decision is the result of political trickery because most of the members belong to political parties

"Some members of the CNE had already gone public to talk about issues that they felt had not yet been considered. We had already anticipated that there would be CNE members who would want, at all costs, to reject CAD's candidacy," he said.

According to Venâncio Mondlane, the CNE's arguments were poorly prepared, and nothing is lost. He said that the CNE had clearly not served the public.

The CNE has clearly legitimized the CAD's electoral manifesto proposal to de-partisanize the body so that it is independent.

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