Good afternoon. Elections in Mozambique are never a cause for boundless optimism, given ruling party Frelimo’s fondness for electoral fraud. But the signs for this October’s elections look particularly unpromising. This week has seen reaction to the changes to the electoral law, which explicitly denies lower courts the right to overturn election results in their area (see below). As we noted last week, it was district courts that in some cases stood up to fraud and challenged election results in last year’s local elections. Now they will not have the chance, and election results will be in the hands of the National Elections Commission (CNE) and the Constitutional Council, both of whom have shown themselves willing and able to falsify those results in Frelimo’s favour.
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