Elections in Mozambique 2019

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The presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections in 2019 in Mozambique were held on October 15 of 2019. The Election Commission Comissão Nacional de Eleições (CNE) with the Secretariado Tecnico da Administrão Eleitoral (STAE; German for "Technical Secretariat for the implementation of elections") was responsible for the process. President Filipe Nyusi was re-elected by a large margin. His party FRELIMO won the elections for the Assembleia da República and the provincial parliaments as well as the gubernatorial elections.

initial situation

The presidential election and the election of 250 members of the Assembleia da República (roughly: "Assembly of the Republic") have taken place every five years since 1994; the provincial assemblies were elected for the first time in 2009. The last elections took place in 2014 as scheduled and were won at state level by FRELIMO, which has ruled the country since independence in 1975. Filipe Nyusi's (FRELIMO) rival candidate in 2014 was Afonso Dhlakama ( RENAMO ), who died in 2018. In August 2019, the government and RENAMO concluded a peace agreement after many years of conflict - the Mozambican civil war until 1992 and subsequent hostilities. The situation during the election campaign was described as "fragile".

Around 13 million Mozambicans registered for the elections.

Presidential election

Candidates

The President Nyusi (FRELIMO), who has been in office since 2014, ran for the second and, according to the constitution, last time for the office. Ossufo Momade (RENAMO) competed against him . The other candidates were Daviz Simango ( Movimento Democrático de Moçambique , MDM, a spin-off from RENAMO) and Mário Albino ( Ação do Movimento Unido para a Salvação Integral , AMUSI, a spin-off from MDM).

  • Filipe Nyusi (2018)

  • Ossufo Momade (2018)

  • Daviz Simango (2014)

  • Mário Albino (2019)

Electoral process

The president is determined in the first ballot if he receives at least 50% of the valid votes. Otherwise, the president is determined in a runoff election of the two most successful candidates in the first ballot.

Procedure and reviews

The election was largely calm and, according to election observers, “in an orderly manner”. However, irregularities in registration and an election campaign in which there had been violence and allegations of electoral fraud were criticized. It was also criticized that the electoral commission did not want to publish any significant interim results before the expiry of the maximum permitted 15-day period before the final result was announced. Election observers from the African Union considered the elections “free and fair”, while representatives of the US and EU criticized the electoral process in some cases. Most of the electoral boards were made up of FRELIMO supporters; in the province of Gaza , a FRELIMO stronghold, around 300,000 non-existent voters were registered. After the first interim results were announced, RENAMO complained of attempted fraud and demanded a new election. The MDM also complained about election fraud.

Result of the presidential election

Over 50% of the registered voters took part in the vote. In several polling stations in the province of Cabo Delgado in the north of the country, around 5,400 people were unable to vote because of Islamist attacks. According to the electoral commission, Nyusi won with around 73% of the vote; Momade received just under 22%, Simango a little more than 4% and Albino under 1%. The turnout was 51%.

General election

Assembleia da República (2015)

Electoral process

248 of the members of the unicameral assembly Assembleia da República are determined according to the proportional representation in eleven constituencies, which correspond to the provinces , according to the D'Hondt procedure . One further MP is elected by Mozambicans abroad in Africa and the rest of the world according to the majority vote.

Result of the general election

FRELIMO won 184 of the 250 seats and can therefore amend the constitution without the consent of other parties . RENAMO received 60 mandates, the MDM six.

Provincial elections

Electoral process

The provincial assemblies and, for the first time in the history of Mozambique, the governors of ten provinces were elected by direct election .

Result of the provincial elections

FRELIMO won all ten provincial elections and also provides all governors.

consequences

After the elections there were fatal attacks in central Mozambique by the Renamo Military Junta , a splinter group of Renamo. In the north, jihadists carried out an increasing number of attacks with numerous victims.

Web links

Individual evidence

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