Presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, supported by PODEMOS (Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique) in the October 9 elections, has filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council (CC), the country's highest electoral law body, asking for the votes cast in Zimbabwe to be annulled, since 296,519 Zimbabwean citizens were illegally allowed to...
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Annulment of the CC ruling: PGR "rejects" Renamo's request. "Decisions of the CC are unappealable"
The Attorney General's Office (PGR) has dismissed Renamo's request for a stay of execution and annulment of the Constitutional Council's ruling validating and proclaiming the results of the sixth local elections. In a statement sent to the media, the PGR said that Renamo's request was unfounded...
Elections: CC rejects Renamo's request for annulment in Marromeu on grounds of lack of evidence
The Constitutional Council (CC) has rejected Renamo's appeal to annul the results of the repeat elections held on December 10 in 18 polling stations, due to the many irregularities recorded. Renamo denounces the falsification of 18 minutes and notices and the fact that its candidate delegates were not...
Constitutional Council makes way for repeat elections in Alto Mulócue
The Constitutional Council (CC) has decided to uphold the appeal filed by the Renamo party in the municipality of Alto Mulócue, in Zambézia province, making way for the elections to be repeated in four polling stations. In the dispute, the largest opposition party requested the annulment of the results from four polling stations in the...
Local elections 2023: Court annuls and orders repeat vote in 64 Nlhamankulu polling stations
The Nlhamankulu District Court, in Maputo city, decided on Tuesday night to annul the votes of 64 assemblies and repeat the voting process. At first, a recount of the votes had been ordered. The district has around 100,000 voters. The measure was prompted by the detection of 42 falsified editas. But also because of...
Local elections 2023: Kampfumu court annuls elections and recommends penalizing district STAE
The District Court of Kampfumu, in Maputo city, today ordered the annulment of the elections in that municipal district due to electoral irregularities. The polling stations allocated in Kampfumo counted around 48,000 voters, and according to STV, there were disparities in the figures presented in the notices. They had allegedly been falsified. The annulment results...
Renamo withdraws appeal against RD and opens space for party to advance in eight municipalities
The Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) has submitted a request to the Constitutional Council to annul the appeal against the Democratic Revolution (RD) party for allegedly using images of André Matsangaíça and Afonso Dlhakhama, two founders of Renamo, on its emblem. The National Electoral Commission said on Wednesday that the RD had resolved the documentary irregularities and so...
NGO demands annulment of millionaire public tender awarded to a consortium by Matola municipality
The Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), formerly the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), is taking legal action to obtain the suspension and annulment of a contract worth more than 500 million meticais that the Matola city council awarded to the consortium formed by MCNET & AXIS SOLUTIONS. This is...
Local elections: Renamo calls for annulment of voter registration
On Tuesday, the Renamo party demanded the annulment and auditing of the data from the electoral census held in all 65 municipal cities and towns with a view to the sixth elections on October 11. According to its spokesman, José Manteigas, speaking at a press conference yesterday, the process was characterized by various irregularities, including...
Education cancels Portuguese evaluation that satirizes the President of the Republic. SERNIC investigates the author of the statement
A Portuguese language assessment, due to be completed in the first quarter of 2023, has been annulled by the Education Sector in Inhambane province, for allegedly damaging the "good image" of the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi. The grade 12 exam was held last Monday at Massinga Secondary School, and Education in Inhambane...