The Mais Integridade Electoral Consortium today refused the Constitutional Council's (CC) request to share the minutes and public notices of the Presidential, Legislative and Provincial Assembly General Elections held on October 9.

By means of Order 50/CC/2024 of December 4, the CC requested the minutes and public notices from Mais Integridade. However, the platform believes that the CC's request was untimely and that the results of the votes processed do not have the legitimacy to validate any outcome.

The consortium does not find it appropriate for the CC to request these documents when, through the media, it has become known that the body has processed materials from nine provinces, with Zambézia missing. In this sense, Mais Integridade implies that the CC already has enough data to "make its decisions".

Nevertheless, Mais Integridade's letter of reply to the CC to which we have had accessIn its report on the results of the elections in the provinces of Nampula and Zambézia "evidence of fraud" and other irregularities reported by its observers "make it impossible to determine the real result of that election".

The group of Civil Society Organizations believes that sharing the documents requested by the CC "will not contribute to guaranteeing electoral truth".

"The Mais Integridade Consortium does not intend to be a source of misrepresentation of electoral truth," it reads.

In addition, it appears that, in a context of distrust and lack of credibility of the institutions, "the late request for information could be used to legitimize the validation of electoral fraud" in these elections.

In the document we quote, Mais Integridade repudiated the fact that the CC had ignored the data from the 94% notices of polling stations in Maputo city and 88% in Matola city that the consortium, on its own initiative, handed over to the CC at the time of the local elections in October 2023. This data showed electoral fraud and contrasted with the results presented by the National Electoral Commission.

The consortium remains open to providing clarifications on the irregularities that make the results presented so far unlawful.