Mozambican civil society organizations have criticized the approval of the revised electoral law, which removed the competence of district courts to order a recount of votes in the event of irregularities during the ballot. The electoral package was approved last Thursday, the last day of the Assembly of the Republic's activities in the current legislature, after...
On August 8, the Mozambican parliament decided to strip district courts of their autonomy to order vote recounts in electoral disputes. This position is seen by the Mais Integridade electoral consortium as a democratic step backwards, as well as prejudicing the upcoming elections on October 9. In Mais Integridade's view, the changes...
The Supreme Court (SC) says that the Constitutional Council (CC) is totally incompetent to enumerate the functions of the courts and curtails its decision-making powers in electoral processes it is dealing with. According to the TS spokesman, the TS itself and the CC are at the same level of hierarchy, both being sovereign bodies of the...
Lawyer and journalist Ericino de Salema considers the Constitutional Council's (CC) interpretation that district courts do not have the power to annul election results to be problematic. "I don't think the CC is doing the right thing in these matters, in particular, because the law, as far as I understand it, gives such powers to the district courts,"...