2019 Mozambican general election

2019 Mozambican general election

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Presidential election
Turnout	51.84% (2.81pp)
Nominee Filipe Nyusi Ossufo Momade Party FRELIMO RENAMO Popular vote 4,639,172 1,356,786 Percentage 73.46% 21.48%
Presidential election results by province
President before election Filipe Nyusi FRELIMO Elected President Filipe Nyusi FRELIMO
Parliamentary election
All 250 seats in the Assembly of the Republic 126 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats +/– FRELIMO Filipe Nyusi 71.28 184 +40 RENAMO Ossufo Momade 22.28 60 −29 MDM Daviz Simango 4.19 6 −11 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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General elections were held in Mozambique on 15 October 2019.^[1][2][3] During the leadup to the elections, assassinations and significant intimidation of prominent leaders of opposition parties and election observers were alleged.^[4][5] In addition, state resources, media, and aid for cyclone victims were also alleged to be used in favour of the ruling party (FRELIMO) and its candidates.^[6][7] Local elections observers, civil society organizations, the Commonwealth Observer Group, the European Union Election Observation Mission, and several national and international entities classified the elections as rigged.^{[8][9][6][7][10][11][12]} Nevertheless, the incumbent president Filipe Nyusi of FRELIMO was declared re-elected with 73% of the vote. The main opposition party RENAMO as well as the other oppositions parties involved in the elections contested the results, claiming there were numerous irregularities, and accusing FRELIMO of "massive electoral fraud", including hundreds of thousands of "ghost voters".^[13] As evidence for the international community, Ossufo Momade, the president of the main opposition party RENAMO, transported to Europe a box filled with vote ballots that had been marked in favor of the incumbent president Filipe Nyusi of FRELIMO before the commencement of voting.^[14][15][16] Despite these occurrences, the international community largely ignored any concerns of fraud, and gradually countries started recognizing the incumbent president Filipe Nyusi of FRELIMO as the winner of the elections.^[17]

Electoral system

The

On 16 January 2019 the main opposition party RENAMO held a congress at which Ossufo Momade was elected as the party's new leader and presidential candidate.^[20] Momade had been the party's interim president following the death of Afonso Dhlakama in May 2018 and was seen as a "unifying leader" that could bring the political and military sector of RENAMO closer.^[21]

The ruling

On 9 May and following a three-day congress, the Democratic Movement of Mozambique confirmed that its presidential candidate would be Daviz Simango, mayor of Beira since 2003. Simango was a presidential candidate in the two previous general elections.^[22]

On 31 July the Constitutional Council approved four candidates; Nyussi, Momade, Simango and Mário Albino. Two candidates were disqualified; Hélder Mendoça and Alice Mabota. Mabota would have been the first woman to run for president, but failed to collect enough signatures.^[23]

FRELIMO nominated Mércia Viriato Licá as one of their candidates. She was elected and became the youngest MP in the country's history.^[24]

Results

President

Assembly

Provincial elections

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