In Mozambique, it has now been more than 50 days since the October general elections took place and the country is still awaiting their final results. The Constitutional Council has given itself until December 23 to deliver its judgment. Meanwhile, the electoral dispute continues. On Monday, unsuccessful presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane called for a new week of protests.
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With our regional correspondent, Gaëlle Laleix
This time, it was in the outlying neighborhoods that Venancio Mondlane asked the demonstrators to concentrate. They must block traffic there every morning at 8 a.m. and every afternoon at 4 p.m. “ We will demonstrate without interruption and without respite “, said Venancio Mondlane, in a video on Facebook.
The independent candidate therefore maintains the pressure, while the toll from the demonstrations continues to rise.
According to the Decide electoral platform, a civil society organization, police repression has already left 76 dead and 210 injured by bullets. Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Lutero Simango, the candidate of the country’s second opposition force, the Democratic Movement of Mozambique, renewed his demand for the cancellation of the general elections. The only path according to him to “ national reconciliation “.
Albino Forquillha, president of the Podemos party which supports Venancio Mondlane, asked that “ the perpetrators of electoral fraud take responsibility “. On the side of the presidency, radio silence. Filipe Nyusi had however promised last week to reconvene the candidates for the presidential election.
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