The Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique believes that the Constitutional Council (CC) held Wednesday's meeting to throw banana peels at the party and find turning points.

One of the situations, according to Dinis Tivane, was when the President of the CC, Lúcia Ribeiro, said she had not received any appeal about Venâncio Mondlane's independent presidential candidacy.

The representative told a press conference today about the "coffee" with Lúcia Ribeiro, that it was an issue on which the CC wanted to find out if there was, in fact, any "legitimacy for Podemos to pursue the genuine interests of [Venâncio Mondlane's] presidential candidacy".

This was due, according to Tivane, to the fact that political parties, such as Podemos, had to submit their legislative candidacies through the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and presidential candidates, such as Venâncio Mondlane, did so through the CC.  

The party spokesman said that the party had full legitimacy to pursue the interests of the presidential candidacy. He also recalled that Podemos had submitted a request to the CC to transition party support for Venâncio Mondlane's candidacy from the Democratic Alliance Coalition (CAD) to Podemos.

Judite Simão, Venâncio Mondlane's national representative, submitted an Electoral Complaint to the CC yesterday in which she presents the grounds for the CC's "unreasonableness".

In the document to which we have had access, she explains that "the object of the appeal was against the CNE's deliberation, and the party that supports and supports the presidential candidate contests the results of deliberation no. 105/CNE/2024 of October 24 attributed to it [the Podemos party] and to you [Venâncio Mondlane]".

Simão said in the document that he understood that Lúcia Ribeiro's question was in fact a message to prepare society for maintaining the election results announced by the CNE, "or close to it".