Post-election crisis: PODEMOS insists on restoring the "electoral truth"

Crise pós eleitoral: PODEMOS insiste na reposição da “verdade eleitoral”

The PODEMOS party insists that the Constitutional Council (CC) should consider its appeal before the general elections are validated.

At a press conference on Saturday, Dinis Tivane, a member of the PODEMOS party, said that what he calls "electoral truth" needs to be restored.

Regarding the Constitutional Council's claim that PODEMOS didn't file an appeal in relation to the presidential elections, Tivane said that "in fact, the way our appeal is written may tend to give that impression, but it follows that, for legal reasons, we responded to decision 105 of the CNE and the title of that decision relates to the holding of all elections."

Therefore," he continued, "the presidential, legislative and provincial elections are more than enough reason for us to realize that the claim that PODEMOS failed to appeal in some elections cannot stand."

Tivane went further, accusing the CC of executing the law as it saw fit. "In order to fail the DAC, it could fail the DAC by invoking facts that occurred in the past, therefore, at a time that had already been taken for granted. And now, when it comes to failing the election in Zimbabwe, it says it can't because it's untimely," he said.

"What we demand is electoral truth (...) the public out there often confuses electoral truth with Venâncio Mondlane winning, that's not it. Let's understand one thing: we are in a democratic state governed by the rule of law, which means that the institutions and the issues that these institutions deal with must obey what the Legal Institute recommends.

Elections are a legal process sui generis. So, when we tell the electoral truth, we have to follow all the legal procedures and steps," he explained.

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