In Mozambique, the climate remains tense four weeks after the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections on October 9, 2024. This November 5, the outgoing president criticized the demonstrations against the conditions of the voting and against the results giving victory to the candidate of the ruling party, Daniel Chapo. The day before, the opposition party Podemos announced that it had filed an appeal against the electoral process. Details.
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With our regional correspondent, Gaëlle Laleix
At Mozambiquea demonstration of doctors and health professionals took place this Tuesday morning in Maputo. They denounce, among other things, the police violence of recent days.
Since the previous week, the country has been shaken by a wave of electoral protests, the repression of which has left more than a dozen dead.
This November 5, the Mozambican president, Filipe Nyusi, called for an end to the demonstrations which he describes as “ violent “. “ Infrastructure is destroyed… What does this have to do with the electoral process? What is the goal? Apart from destroying the country and going back to zero », Filipe Nyusi said this Tuesday morning, in front of an audience of lawyers, on the occasion of Law Day.
The outgoing Mozambican president says he is open to dialogue, but he believes that the time is not right: we must wait for the final results of the general elections, promulgated by the Constitutional Council. Those, provisional, of the National Electoral Commission give the winner, Daniel Chapo, candidate of the presidential party Frelimo.
An appeal from the opposition party Podemos
On November 4, Podemosan opposition force which supports the presidential candidate, Venancio Mondlane, has filed an appeal with the Attorney General of the Republic. He accuses certain district electoral commissions of having produced false reports.
The situation still remains tense in Mozambique. According to Netblocks, an Internet governance monitoring organization, access to social networks remains very restricted. “ These attempts to crush peaceful dissent risk worsening an already dire human rights situation », Writes in a press release, the southern Africa office of Amnesty International.
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