The Povo Optimista para o Desenvolvimento de Moçambique (PODEMOS) party, which supports the presidential candidacy of Venâncio Mondlane, submitted the second and final batch of minutes and notices of the partial tabulation of the October 9 election results to the National Electoral Commission (CNE) yesterday (Wednesday, October 30), in order to support its claim to have won the vote.

This action takes place on the same day that the Constitutional Council notified the CNE to submit, within eight days, the minutes and notices of the partial tabulation (carried out at the polling stations) and the intermediate tabulation, carried out at the district and city election commissions.

According to a Letter from MozambiqueThe batch delivered yesterday consists of 17,196 minutes and the same number of notices from the polling stations in the provinces of Sofala, Nampula and Niassa, and joins the first, submitted on Sunday, when the electoral litigation appeal was filed, protesting against the results published by the CNE.

For Venâncio Mondlane's representative, Judite Mahocha Simão, the minutes and notices delivered yesterday correspond to around two million voters and are part of the group of minutes and notices collected by the party throughout the country, equivalent to 59.95% of the total number of minutes and notices issued by polling station officials.

"It took a lot of hard work and now we've brought what was missing," said Judite Mahocha Simão, stressing that PODEMOS does believe "that there is room to declare the party and its candidate the winners of the election, because the people voted".

"I think that the reactions coming from all corners of the country and the diaspora are giving us encouragement. We believe that victory will be declared by the Constitutional Council. It's the opportunity it has to show that justice exists in Mozambique," the source said.

(Photo DR)