Presidential election in Mozambique 2009

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The 2009 presidential election in Mozambique was the fourth time since the end of the Mozambican civil war to elect a president for the Southeast African country of Mozambique . The election took place on October 28, 2009 at the same time as the parliamentary elections and the first provincial elections.

The candidates

April 2009 the Mozambican Constitutional Court (the Conselho Constitutional) set the conditions for admission to a candidacy. The most important prerequisite was the production of at least 10,000 signatures to support the candidacy of a specific person. By the deadline of July 29, nine potential candidates had submitted their documents:

Six candidacies were not admitted, mostly on the grounds that they remained below the threshold of 10,000 signatures with their valid signatures. In this context, rejected applicants complained that they were informed of the decision on the rejection without the possibility of objection. In the run-up to the election, RENAMO had also criticized the fact that the process of registering the roughly half a million new or relocated voters had been hindered, particularly in areas where RENAMO had been strong in previous elections.

With Armando Guebuza and Afonso Dhlakama, the candidates of the two major parties in Mozambique , FRELIMO and RENAMO, were confirmed. With Daviz Simango from the Movimento Democrático de Moçambique party, which was founded only at the beginning of the year, for the first time in the short history of democracy in Mozambique, a presidential candidate who was expected to achieve a noteworthy result, although he is not a member of either party that controls the political life of the country, ran determine since independence. However, no observers believed him to have a chance of winning.

Results

The government candidate Armando Guebuza won a clear victory with around three quarters of all votes, Afonso Dhlakama won only half of his 2004 result with 16.5% and Daviz Simango from the newly founded MDM received 8.5%

Results of the 2009 presidential election
candidate Name of his party Number of votes Result in percent
Armando Guebuza Frente da Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO) 2,974,627 75.01%
Afonso Dhlakama Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (RENAMO) 650 679 16.41%
Daviz Simango Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (MDM) 340 579 8.59%
Turnout 44.63% Total valid votes: 4,406,093

The RENAMO deposited with the National Election Commission complaint (CNE) one against the election results. The spokeswoman for RENAMO, Ivone Soares, announced that RENAMO would boycott the parliamentary sessions until it received a satisfactory answer to the complaint submitted by the National Electoral Authority.

In the province of Nampula , around 300 former RENAMO fighters threatened to resume armed struggle after the RENAMO's catastrophic election defeat if the election result was not canceled. A representative of the RENAMO provincial leadership described these statements as a decision by the province of Nampula, which could soon be extended to other parts of the country.

Democratic standards

In both elections in Mozambique, observers criticize the clear advantage given to the ruling party FRELIMO and the disadvantage of Daviz Simango's new MDM party, which was excluded from the election in nine of the 13 electoral districts with formal arguments.

Election observers from the European Union observed numerous irregularities in the counting of votes in polling stations; however, the irregularities would not have a decisive influence on the election results.

cabinet

Armando Guebuza was sworn in as President of the Republic of Mozambique on January 14, 2010 in Maputo. He appointed 28 ministers to his cabinet:

  • Prime Minister - Aires Bonifácio Baptista Ali
  • Interior Minister - Jose Condungua Pacheco
  • Finance Minister - Manuel Chang
  • Minister of Justice - Maria Benvinda Delfina Levi
  • Minister for Construction and Development - Aiuba Cuereneia
  • Foreign Minister - Oldemiro Julio Baloi
  • Defense Minister - Filipe Jacinto Nyussi
  • Environment Minister - Alcinda Abreu
  • Minister of Agriculture - Soares Nhaca
  • Minister of Health - Alexandre Manguele; until June 8, 2010 Paulo Ivo Garrido
  • Minister for Industry and Trade - Antonio Fernando
  • Minister of Science and Technology - Venancio Massingue
  • Minister of Labor - Maria Helena Taipo
  • Minister of Transport and Communications - Paulo Zucula
  • Minister for Public Works and Housing - Cadmiel Muthemba
  • Minister of Public Service - Vitoria Diogo
  • Minister of Tourism - Fernando Sumbana Junior
  • Minister of State Administration - Carmelita Namashalua
  • Minister of Natural Resources - Esperanca Bias
  • Energy Minister - Salvador Namburete
  • Minister for Veterans Affairs - Mateus Oscar Kida
  • Minister of Education - Zeferino Martins
  • Minister of Culture - Armando Artur Joao
  • Minister of Fisheries - Victor Manuel Borges
  • Minister for Women and Public Welfare - Iolanda Cintura
  • Minister for Youth and Sport - Pedrito Caetano
  • Minister for Special Purposes in the President's Office - Antonio Fernandes Sumbana
  • Minister for Social Affairs - Feliciano Gundana
  • Minister for Parliament, Local and Provincial Affairs - Adeleaide Amurane

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schwarzbauer / Schubert: Three presidential candidates, 26 parties, 340,000 new voters: p. 2
  2. ↑ Schwarzbauer / Schubert: Three presidential candidates, 26 parties, 340,000 new voters: p. 1
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/200911161902.html
  5. ^ Daily Nation, Nairobi, Nov. 18, 2009
  6. ↑ Renamo Former Guerrillas Threaten to Return to War ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4840702,00.html
  8. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/200911180961.html
  9. ↑ http://www.presidencia.gov.mz/
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of July 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

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