The Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos) says that it has submitted to the Constitutional Council, through the National Electoral Commission (CNE), all the minutes and notices of the elections held on October 9 regarding the results of all the country's provinces.

In a statement denying reports on private television that the party had only submitted notices from seven provinces to the CNE, the political grouping explains that it first submitted the minutes and notices from seven provinces and then from another three provinces.

According to the note, the information provided was about the non-submission of minutes and edicts from the provinces of Niassa, Cabo Delgado and Gaza.

The first batch of minutes and notices from seven provinces was delivered to the CC on October 27, three days after the centralized results were released by the CNE. The party says that, "due to the imperative of complying with judicial deadlines, it protested to deliver the second batch of minutes and edicts from three provinces - Niassa, Nampula and Sofala - later, and this took place on October 30.

Along with the statement, the party attached the contentious appeals submitted to the CC through the CNE. In this sense, it notes that "it is proven that the CNE received these documents in full, and there is no reason attributable to Podemos for the CC to claim inertia on its part".

For Podemos, either the CNE or the CC "is lying to the Mozambican people" and believes that the parties should compare the data.

Furthermore, he says that he submitted those documents to the CC with the "vertical" commitment of contributing to the electoral truth.