The National Electoral Commission (CNE) foresees constraints in the voter registration process in Cabo Delgado, due to the suspension of the rental of 21 vehicles valued at 88 million meticais. The President of the CNE, Carlos Matsinhe, said that so far the process has been normal because at the time of the suspension the materials had already been...
The district director of STAE in Quelimane, Hassan Hussein, accuses the Mozambique Republic Police of having been negligent in the theft of voter registration equipment. The equipment was stolen on Wednesday night from Murripué Primary School in Quelimane, where a registration office is located. It was a laptop computer and a...
The Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) decided on Tuesday to extend the opening hours of voter registration offices in Mozambique by another two hours, making them open between 7am and 5pm. "The aim of extending the opening hours of the voter registration brigades by two more hours is to allow for the registration of the largest number...
Speaking to RDP Africa, the president of the CNE, Dom Carlos Matsinhe, expressed his indignation at the level of irregularities being reported in this electoral process. According to Matsinhe, the electoral bodies are startled to learn that there are houses where they are registering voters. These, he adds, are things that come as a surprise to "us too as bodies...
The equipment is from the census brigades in Ndlavela camp, at the T3 administrative post, and Bunhiça, in Machava. It was stored in residences that are thought to belong to the heads of the quarters. It is not known whether or not they were used during the night to register voters from outside the municipal radius. The first piece of equipment...
The National Electoral Commission (CNE) has banned the drawing up of prior lists of voters queuing for registration, defining the voters with priority in attendance, according to a resolution published yesterday in the Boletim da República. "The reception and special attendance of lists of groups organized outside the queue at the voter registration office is prohibited,"...
At around 5am on Saturday, individuals still at large stole a computer and a printer from a census office in the Nlhamankulu municipal district, on the outskirts of Maputo city. According to the Maputo City STAE, as part of the investigation into the crime, the officers of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique who were guarding the site were arrested....
Nampula is the province with the highest number of electoral offenses (10) so far, followed by Sofala (three) and Niassa (two), according to an official source from the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM). At a global level, the spokesman for the PRM command, Orlando Mudumane, said, quoted by Noticias, that 18 crimes had already been recorded during this process of...
The Director of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE) in Chiúre district, Cabo Delgado province, was caught producing voter registration material with four other members of the district STAE. According to a note to which MZNews had access, the act was carried out late at night (18:50) by the Deputy Head of...
The voter cards being produced by Mobiles ID have several defects, according to reports from our correspondents in various districts where voter registration is taking place. Some cards come out with smudges and blurry photos, without the slightest quality, which, on polling day, could contribute to the disqualification of the reader. Some...