The Constitutional Council (CC) has decided that it will examine appeals by the Podemos and Renamo parties against requests for a general recount of votes, announced by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) on October 24.

In separate appeals, the parties informed the CC of several electoral irregularities that may have culminated in electoral fraud. Both parties, says the CC, presented the appropriate evidence, such as minutes, public notices, videos and audios, against Resolution 105/CNE/2024 of October 24.

In its request, Podemos asked the CC to order the CNE to repeat the general tabulation, based on the registers used in each table and copies distributed to the competing parties; to ascertain the real number of voters in the diaspora; to annul the elections in the districts where Podemos was prevented from monitoring with candidates or not called in the intermediate tabulation; annul the elections where the number of voters does not coincide in the two or three elections; request the minutes and notices of the intermediate tabulation from the District Electoral Commissions; and request the minutes and notices that were used in the general tabulation from the CNE.

For its part, Renamo asked the CC to order a recount of the votes; the requalification of null and white votes and the verification of the mandates of the Assembly of the Republic and the Provincial Assemblies.

Against the same CNE decision, the PAHUMO party informed the CC that the percentage of votes obtained in the Provincial Assembly elections does not correspond to the number of seats allocated: one out of five to which it is entitled. The party asked the CC to verify the CNE's distribution of seats.

The CC referred the appeals of the three parties to the process of validating the elections according to the respective frameworks for pronouncements by part of the CC