The District Elections Commission (CDE) of Nampula, in northern Mozambique, decided last Wednesday (22) to incinerate the voting material used during the voting process on October 9 last year, thus putting an end to the process. The disputes over the election results are still ongoing, so much so that a...
The Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos) is willing to legally cancel the confidentiality clause in the coalition agreement with presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane. "If the counterpart of the agreement consents, we are willing to find a legal way to cancel the confidentiality of the agreement," said Hélder Mendonça, from Podemos, quoted by Televisão...
The Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos) accuses presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane of systematically violating the "free, conscious and voluntary" agreement between the parties. According to a statement from the political grouping, it was the candidate for President of the Republic who, from the pre-campaign period until the demonstrations, took unilateral decisions and whose...
The outgoing president of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, may dismiss his entire government this week, considering that next Monday (13) the new deputies and the President of the Assembly of the Republic may take office for the 10th Legislature. The Constitution of the Republic stipulates that the President of the Assembly of the Republic must be sworn in...
Portuguese MP Rodrigo Saraiva, from the Liberal Initiative, believes that the president of the Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), Albino Forquilho, has betrayed the trust of the Mozambican people and the presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, by demonstrating that the 43 elected MPs will be sworn in for the new legislature. Albino Forquilha and Venâncio Mondlane had signed...
Presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane announced yesterday that he will return to Mozambican soil next Thursday, after being in exile since October 21, 2024. "On Thursday, January 9, at 8.05 a.m., punctually, I, Venâncio Mondlane, will be at Mavalane International Airport, I'm coming to Mozambique," he said. According to Mondlane, he has already been...
The opposition political parties reiterated yesterday, Monday (30), that they do not accept the results of the general elections of October 9, but said they are open and available for dialogue with a view to reforms in the country, given the crisis that exists. The position was expressed by representatives of Renamo, Nova Democracia, Movimento Democrático de Moçambique...
The United States government says it is concerned about the situation in Mozambique and calls on all stakeholders to refrain from violence and engage in meaningful collaboration to restore peace and promote unity. The position of the Joe Biden Administration comes after the confirmation on Monday (23), by the...
Frelimo won the presidency, the majority in the Assembly of the Republic and all the provincial governorships, according to the decision of the Constitutional Council (CC) announced this Monday (23). Even so, the CC, Mozambique's highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law, took some votes away from Frelimo, in an implicit admission that it had...
The Constitutional Council (CC) has confirmed the announcement of the validation of the election results from last October for tomorrow (23). The public session will take place at the Joaquim Chissano International Conference Center at 3pm. According to a note from the CC to which MZNews has had access, the session will mark...