2023-10-14 18:31:51
FRELIMO wins local authorities in the capital of Mozambique with 58.78%, against RENAMO (33%) and MDM (6%).
The Elections Commission in the city of Maputo has just announced FRELIMO’s victory with around 58.78% of the votes against 33% for RENAMO and 6% for MDM.
The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique wins in the country’s capital, where the candidate of the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) had already proclaimed victory.
“According to what we have just presented, the mayor of Maputo was elected head of the list of the Frelimo party with 58.78% [dos votos]”, declared this afternoon Ana Tchemane, president of the Maputo Provincial Electoral Commission, when releasing the data from the capital city’s intermediate count, with 100% of the notices processed.
Ana Tchemane added that 635,287 voters were registered for Wednesday’s vote (11.10) in Maputo and there was an abstention rate of 35%.
According to the intermediate tabulation notice presented today, the FRELIMO list in the city of Maputo, led by Rasaque Manhique, collected 235,406 votes (58.78%), Renamo’s 134,511 votes (33.59%) and the Democratic Movement from Mozambique 24,365 votes (6.8%).
Before presenting the notice, Ana Tchemane criticized the “speculation” in recent days on the part of “some political parties”, regarding the non-disclosure of results and lamented the “misinformation” generated on social media, aimed at “discrediting” the process of intermediate clearance.
The head of the list of RENAMO in the city of Maputo, Venâncio Mondlane, proclaimed on Thursday (12.10) with 53% of the votes, the victory in the city’s municipality, led by FRELIMO, using the parallel count carried out by the party using the notices published by each voting table, bringing thousands of supporters to the streets.
“These are the local elections that mark a democratic transition, which first involves the beginning of a political transition,” he told the media.
Venâncio Mondlane, 49 years old, is a forestry engineer and deputy in parliament, being classified by his supporters as VM7 – the CR7 of Mozambican politics, in an allusion to Cristiano Ronaldo. The RENAMO candidate has been using his official account on the social network Facebook to denounce the alleged attempted fraud in the capital, which is no longer accessible today.
By LUSA
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