Around four million voters in Mozambique are called upon to choose the governors of 53 Mozambican municipalities and their respective assembly members. Therefore, the provisional results should be known by this Thursday.
According to news, In Nacala Porto, RENAMO detained two alleged illegal voters, reports CIP. They had identification cards with addresses in Mossuril and Nacaça-a-Velha. This NGO that defends transparency reminds us that this party does not have the right to detain voters and many voters have moved to new places where they register to vote.
At a press conference at noon today, RENAMO stated that FRELIMO is bringing voters to Nacala by truck, including health workers.
On the other hand, elderly people complain of discrimination in voting queues. They say that the queues are so long that they cannot stand for many hours. The youngest ones don’t give up their place. One of them, Joaquina Álvaro, says she arrived at the voting station at Escola Primária 17 de Setembro in Quelimane at 8 am local time, but by 12 pm she had not voted.
Voters at the Cololo and Industrial Institute of Quelimane polling stations are frightened by the presence of the heavily equipped rapid intervention force. Some are already thinking about temporarily abandoning the queues. Civil protection police are also present at the site.
Two polling station presidents were arrested for distributing extra ballot papers to voters, reports the CIP, Center for Public Integrity. The cases occurred in Massinga, Inhambane province, and Ilha de Moçambique, in Nampula. On the Island of Mozambique, the case was discovered by a RENAMO delegate.
The president of the Polling Station nr. 4 in the municipality of Massinga, province of Inhambane, was arrested a few hours after voting began. The president had delivered three ballot papers to voters he knew, said party delegates present at the scene, who immediately informed the Police of the Republic of Mozambique. The PRM and the District Elections Commission confirmed the arrest of news correspondent Luciano da Conceição.
Major floods marked the first hours of voting across the country.
President Filipe Nyusi and candidates call for voting to combat abstention, voting takes place without major incidents, despite delays in some places.