The Renamo party, in the city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado province, is training candidate delegates today and tomorrow to monitor the conduct of the vote in each polling station next Wednesday (09), with a total of 558 candidate delegates. A report in the newspaper Domingo says that the aim is to guarantee an adequate performance during...
Category: Special Elections
Police accuse Venâncio Mondlane of inciting violence and campaigning after hours
The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) revealed yesterday, Thursday (03), that it had opened criminal proceedings against the presidential candidate for the Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique (PODEMOS), who has been campaigning in Manica, central Mozambique, since Wednesday. According to a DW report, it all started when a citizen drove past the caravan...
General elections: MMVs will be distributed to assemblies from Monday in Cabo Delgado
The Members of the Polling Station (MMV) who will be in charge of polling station operations during next Wednesday's vote in Cabo Delgado province will be distributed to the polling stations from Monday. In a publication in the newspaper Domingo, the provincial director of the Technical Secretariat for...
General elections: Mozambique receives SADC election observer mission
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Verónica Macamo, received the Electoral Observation Mission of the Southern African Development Community (SEOM) in Maputo yesterday (Thursday, October 3). The team, made up of 52 observers, is headed by Amani Karume, who will monitor the general elections on October 9. "We are in Mozambique to...
Venâncio Mondlane warns that the people "will rise up" if there is electoral fraud
The presidential candidate for the PODEMOS party, Venâncio Mondlane, warns that the people will take to the streets to demand the election results if there are signs of fraud. "If (the results) are not favorable, but transparent, I will simply continue to do my political work. Now, if they're not favorable to me and there's no transparency, there's...
Sofala: Comiche asks for votes and says Frelimo has already done and wants to do more
The head of Frelimo's central brigade in Sofala, Eneas Comiche, asked for another vote of confidence in the party's candidates at the Maquinino market. The former Maputo mayor, who incidentally left Maputo with several unfulfilled promises, said that in order to be able to continue with the government's development-oriented plans...
Moz Express: Venâncio Mondlane promises railroad linking Maputo to Cabo Delgado
The independent candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, works in the province of Manica, and made promises to the electorate to connect the south and north of the country in record time, as well as to ensure quality education for children. Mondlane told the electorate in the town of Chimoio that he will implement an electric railway project running from Maputo...
Frelimo intensifies electoral violence and collection of voter cards
The Mais Integridade electoral consortium revealed that during the fifth week of the electoral campaign, the Frelimo party intensified violent acts of political intolerance. The group of civil society organizations notes that of the seven incidents recorded, all involved only male citizens. "The most significant were in Mandlakazi (Gaza), where supporters...
Daniel Chapo promises to build low-cost houses for young people
Frelimo presidential candidate Daniel Chapo promised yesterday in Maputo that his government will build sturdy, low-cost houses for young Mozambicans. According to Chapo, the idea is part of his party's electoral manifesto, which aims to identify spaces in the country and mobilize national and foreign investment. "We're thinking of finding...
Frelimo justifies funds allocated for election campaign
The Frelimo party has already submitted the justifications for the funds allocated by the state for the purposes of the election campaign. This was announced on Tuesday by the spokesperson for this political grouping, Ludmila Maguni, at a press conference, according to Rádio Moçambique. On the same occasion, Ludmila Maguni announced that Frelimo's political committee, which met on Tuesday,...