Good afternoon. Will ruling party Frelimo and opposition presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane hold talks to find a way out of the current political turmoil? Both Mondlane and Frelimo’s presidential candidate Daniel Chapo have now said they are willing to talk, despite the fact that both claim that they won the presidential election. Chapo was officially upheld as the winner yesterday amid mounting claims that there was considerable manipulation of the election results, and Frelimo is already planning a victory march in Maputo tomorrow.
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Mondlane has imposed a condition, however. He would like the electoral authorities to release all the results sheets (editais) with the votes counted at each set of ballot boxes, as well as the minutes (actas) from each voting table, so that this raw data can be compared to the official results. In places where the sheets have been falsified, a practice which election observers say was widespread, the minutes, which record the individual counting of votes as ballot papers are checked, could be used to challenge them. Mondlane is also challenging the election results at the Constitutional Council, although the council has turned a blind eye to election fraud in the past and is expected to do so again.
