General Elections 93 – 23 December 2019
National elections were approved this morning by the Constitutional Council, exactly as submitted by the National Elections Commission, including mistakes. In particular votes for President in Africa and Europe have not been counted, and the turnout is wrong. http://bit.ly/CCAc25
Complaints about Gaza over-registration were dismissed as a dispute between experts. Registration of observers was praised and the illegal refusal to give credentials to more than 3000 was ignored.
Confirmed results give Nyusi 73% of the vote on a 50.7% turnout. In parliament, Frelimo has 184 seats, Renamo 60, and MDM 6. In the provinces, Frelimo has all governors and a majority in all provincial assemblies.
The CC says that the Ministerio Publica (Attorney General) says that any illegal action “did not influence the results” and thus can be ignored. The CC again places all blame on political parties for not making their complaints properly.
On the registration of more than 300,000 more voters than the census claims there are voting age adults, the CC simply says that “the Attorney General’s view is that ‘there is not enough evidence at this time to initiate criminal proceedings against any or some of the CNE or STAE officials, however the general population and voter registration data in Gaza Province are being investigated by experts in the field ‘.”
In terms of observation, the CNE cites the huge jump from 3,530 observers in 2014 to 42,382 in this year as evidence of the “growing interest of citizens” and says nothing about the failure to register more than 3000 independent observers, nor does it comment that most who were registered were directly linked to the ruling party, Frelimo.
