Elections to the People's Assembly of Mozambique in 1977
The 1977 elections to the People's Assembly in Mozambique were the first elections in Mozambique after the country gained independence from the Portuguese colonial power. They took place from December 1st to 4th, 1977 under the conditions of the Mozambican civil war, which had just begun, and a one-party system led by the FRELIMO state party . The 210 representatives of the National Assembly of Mozambique were confirmed by non-secret ballots. In the run-up to the elections in February 1977, FRELIMO had declared its conversion from a guerrilla organization to a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party at its 3rd party congress and an electoral law had been passed.
Procedure and character of the elections
It was not a question of elections in the sense of free, equal and secret votes to determine representative representatives of different groups, but rather a sequence of meetings at which a list of candidates was confirmed without discussion. The central committee of the FRELIMO state party drew up a list of “candidates”, which the various assemblies unanimously approved by raising their hands. At the local and city levels, representatives were designated (or confirmed) for “popular assemblies” after answering questions at public assemblies. These were thus representatives for a higher level (district and province). At the head of this sequence of indirectly elected representatives was the People's Assembly of Mozambique.
On December 23, 1977, the designated People's Assembly of Mozambique held its first session.
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- ↑ Inter-Parliamentary Union: MOZAMBIQUE , December 1977 (PDF 9KB)
- ↑ British Foreign & Commonwealth Office: MOZAMBIQUE: THE REGIONAL VOTE IN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS (archived version in the Internet archive) , May 2000 (PDF 38KB)
