The European Union Observation Mission recommends that Mozambican electoral bodies publish the results of the general elections on October 9 online.

The recommendation was made during the presentation on Tuesday in Maputo of its structure and working methodology during the ballot.

In fact, the European Union Mission reiterated its recommendation to the National Electoral Commission (CNE) for the 2019 elections. In this regard, the CNE should publish all the minutes and notices containing the results of those elections on its website.

The information was shared by Laura Cereza, the Head of Mission, who said there was room to incorporate other recommendations.

"We are in constant dialogue with the national authorities, with the political parties, to work together so that these recommendations are implemented soon," he noted.

Inter-party violence, mistrust of electoral administration bodies and, above all, doubts about voter registration, were some of the factors considered by the 2019 mission to have negatively influenced the election results.

Among the recommendations of that mission, led by Spaniard Nacho Sánchez Amor, is the need to "carry out an independent audit of the provisional voter registration data before approving the final voter registration data".

For the current elections, the mission deployed to Mozambique assures that, during the course of the process, it will not make any public assessment of the course of the electoral process.

Thus, the preliminary conclusions of the observation mission will be known two days after polling day, which will be announced at a press conference in the capital Maputo.

The observation mission's final report will only be published three months after the conclusion of the electoral process, in a document which, the head of the mission assures us, will include a set of recommendations for improving future electoral processes.

The European Union has been monitoring all national elections since 1994.