{"id":49183,"date":"2023-10-26T20:34:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/ngo-hails-youth-election-protests-as-extremely-positive"},"modified":"2023-10-26T20:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:50:39","slug":"ngo-hails-youth-election-protests-as-extremely-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/ngo-hails-youth-election-protests-as-extremely-positive","title":{"rendered":"NGO hails youth election protests as \u2018extremely positive\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Institute for Multiparty Democracy (IMD), a Mozambican non-governmental organisation, has hailed as \u201cextremely positive\u201d the participation of young people in the marches taking place in the country to protest against the official results of the local elections on 11 October.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving young people demanding rights on the street is extremely positive (…) and political parties must capitalise on this massive involvement of young people in demanding rights because they are effectively the people who can transform national politics,\u201d said IMD programme coordinator Lorena Mazive on the sidelines of a debate on the \u201cYouth Agenda in Local Government\u201d.<\/p>\n

Opposition parties, especially the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), have been organising marches across the country to challenge the results of the October 11 elections, bringing together thousands of mostly young people to denounce the alleged \u201cmega fraud\u201d in the vote, giving victory for the most part to the party already in power.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf young people already have this vision of demanding rights, it means that they are also capable of deciding, because they know what is best for them and know what is necessary for a normal society to function,\u201d Mazive said.<\/p>\n

The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the third parliamentary force, called on more young people to join the marches, considering that their participation in the protests is a \u201creflection of the Frelimo party\u2019s poor governance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe youth feels disadvantaged because they expressed their right to vote at the polls on October 11th and someone thinks they can kick the Constitution of the Republic in order to usurp this right,\u201d the MDM\u2019s Sai\u0301de Abi\u0301lio said.<\/p>\n

Regarding the participation of young people in the marches, Renamo, the largest opposition party, considered that the images circulating on social media \u201cspeak for themselves\u201d, reiterating that \u201cno one forced any young person to take to the streets\u201d to challenge the electoral results, according to Zacarias Silvestre from the Renamo Youth League.<\/p>\n

The Mozambique Youth Organization (OJM), the youth wing of Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation Front, in power), asked young people not to promote \u201cconfusion\u201d, considering the marches \u201cunnecessary\u201d pending the official results.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not create unnecessary confusion, my young brothers (…) Confusion will not solve the problem,\u201d said Silva Livone, secretary general of the OJM, asking for calm because \u201cthe nation will not end with these elections\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Mozambican government yesterday appealed for calm, while saying that the marches taking place in the country were to be seen as \u201ccompletely normal\u201d, as long as the law is respected.<\/p>\n

The sixth municipal elections in Mozambique took place in 65 municipalities across the country on October 11, including 12 new municipalities, which went to vote for the first time.<\/p>\n

According to intermediate district and provincial results for 65 municipalities recently released by the STAE, Frelimo won in 64 and MDM in one \u2013 Beira.<\/p>\n

At least five district courts have already recognized irregularities in the elections and ordered the repetition of various electoral actions, with the electoral bodies and the party in power in some cases submitting appeals to the Constitutional Council (CC) to challenge the sentences, rulings and orders of the district courts.<\/p>\n

The CC, which is exclusively responsible for validating elections in Mozambique, today began deliberations on the process, having already annulled a decision by a district court to invalidate the vote in Chokwe\u0301.<\/p>\n

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