{"id":49140,"date":"2023-10-25T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court"},"modified":"2023-10-25T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:50:16","slug":"constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Council overrules Chokwe Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Constitutional Council, Mozambique\u2019s highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law, has overruled the Chokwe district court, in the southern province of Gaza, which had annulled the elections to the Chokwe municipal assembly held on 11 October.<\/p>\n

The Council\u2019s ruling, dated 23 October, makes it clear that only the Council, and no lower courts, can annul elections and order a repetition. So there will be no repeat of the Chokwe municipality \u2013 unless the Council itself decides that the election was fatally flawed, and that can only happen after the National Elections Commission (CNE) has delivered its final results, which is supposed to happen no later than Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Council found that the Chokwe District Election Commission (CDE) broke the electoral law by failing to issue accreditation for poll monitors of one of the minor opposition parties, New Democracy (ND).<\/p>\n

The CDE\u2019s excuse was that the ND\u2019s list of poll monitors included some of the same people who were running for seats on the municipal assembly. The CDE regarded this as a \u201cconflict of interest\u201d.<\/p>\n

But this conflict was invented by the CDE and does not exist in the electoral legislation. There is nothing in law to prevent people from being both candidates for a municipal assembly, and monitors stationed at the polling stations.<\/p>\n

This ban on the ND monitors, the council ruled, \u2018called into question the principle of electoral transparency in the 11 October elections in the city of Cho\u0301kwe\u0300\u2019, and the Council regarded this as illegal.<\/p>\n

The illegality of the failure to issue credentials to the ND monitors will be considered again \u201cduring the phase of the validation of the election results\u201d. Only then will the Council consider whether the illicit ban on the ND monitors had a significant impact on the elections.<\/p>\n

A second Council ruling indirectly upheld the decision of the court in the Maputo municipal district of Nhlamankulo to annul the municipal election in that district.<\/p>\n

The ruling threw out the appeal against the court decision by the Nhlamankulo District Elections Commission. This was largely because the appeal did not come from the full Commission, but only from its chairperson.<\/p>\n

The Council noted that the chairperson did not show any decision from the Commission giving her powers to lodge an appeal.<\/p>\n

The chairperson, it said, had no legal standing because she would not have been harmed by the \u2018execution of the judgment\u2019. For the Council, only those who \u2018have been harmed by the delivery or execution of the judgment\u2019 have the standing to appeal, which the Nhlamankulu Commission \u2018is unable to demonstrate in its legal sphere, as a defender of the public interest of justice, transparency, impartiality and electoral legality\u2019.<\/p>\n

This does not necessarily mean that the court\u2019s order to repeat the election in 64 polling stations will go ahead. Instead, the Council will deal with it when it receives from the CNE the full results for validation.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Constitutional Council, Mozambique\u2019s highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law, has overruled the Chokwe district court, in the southern province of Gaza, which had annulled the elections to the Chokwe municipal assembly held on 11 October. The Council\u2019s ruling, dated 23 October, makes it clear that only the Council, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-49140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nConstitutional Council overrules Chokwe Court - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Constitutional Council, Mozambique\u2019s highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law, has overruled the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Constitutional Council overrules Chokwe Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Constitutional Council, Mozambique\u2019s highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law, has overruled the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-25T20:08:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-25T21:50:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2023\/10\/sm_1698256974.832838.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1678\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"944\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Constitutional Council overrules Chokwe Court\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-25T20:08:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-25T21:50:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court\"},\"wordCount\":503,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2023\/10\/sm_1698256974.832838.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/constitutional-council-overrules-chokwe-court\",\"name\":\"Constitutional Council overrules Chokwe Court - 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