The intervention of supervisors could guarantee the faithful and impartial verification of 39 minutes and public notices that were not taken into account during the tabulation of the intermediate results of the October 11 municipal elections in Quelimane, according to the city's mayor and Renamo party leader, Manuel de Araújo.

In ruling no. 44/CC/2023 of October 31, the Constitutional Council (CC) decided to partially uphold the appeal filed by Renamo regarding the request for 39 minutes and public notices. This means that the data from these minutes and public notices that had not been included in the intermediate tabulation of the results of the vote in Quelimane should be taken into account.

Speaking this Saturday at a press conference, he said that the electoral bodies in the province are discredited for having committed several breaches of electoral law and plotting Renamo's defeat.

"A commission should come from Maputo, or from the moon, to do this verification with the supervision of the central STAE [Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration] and the National Electoral Commission because we don't trust either the District Electoral Commission or the Provincial Electoral Commission. I'm not saying that we trust the national STAE or the Bishop's STAE," said Manuel de Araújo.

He said that the process of verifying the 39 calls for proposals should also be accompanied by national and international observers or supervisors. "We want fairness, justice and transparency".

According to Araújo, the electoral bodies deliberately allocated votes to Frelimo; changed votes in 26 polling stations; randomly, and without the respective minutes, added votes in 15 polling stations.

"That's why accounting for the minutes and notices doesn't eliminate all of Renamo's complaints. What's more, they must cease and correct all the defects that we have detected here," he suggested.

At the time, Araújo stressed that, as well as referring to the flawed results, he could list other electoral irregularities such as the fact that he was arrested as Renamo's list leader, the presidents of polling stations who refused to sign minutes, the secretaries who didn't produce minutes, the fact that the police carried the ballots from the ballot boxes to the STAE, the filling in of minutes and notices "in the backyard of the STAE".