{"id":50747,"date":"2023-11-20T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/local-election-result-protests-should-not-threaten-security-minister"},"modified":"2023-11-20T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:25:41","slug":"local-election-result-protests-should-not-threaten-security-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/local-election-result-protests-should-not-threaten-security-minister","title":{"rendered":"Local election result protests should not threaten security \u2013 minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambique\u2019s defence minister, Cristo\u0301va\u0303o Chume, on Friday warned that national security should not be threatened by challenges to the results of the October 11 local elections, warning that there are still \u201carmed minds\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe spaces for discussion and negotiation [about the results of the 11 October local elections] must not be replaced by threats to the security of people, to national security,\u201d said Chume.<\/p>\n

The defence minister was speaking at the conference\u201d Mozambique at the United Nations Security Council: Promoting International Peace and Security\u201d, held on Friday in Maputo, the Mozambican capital.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe images we see show how deeply we are armed in our minds,\u201d emphasised Cristo\u0301va\u0303o Chume, defending the need for national cohesion.<\/p>\n

The country, he continued, must commit itself to deepening democracy and the rule of law.<\/p>\n

The Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Centre for Public Integrity said on Friday that officers from the Mozambique police force (PRM) shot eight demonstrators from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo, the main opposition party) in Angoche, Nampula province, one of whom was in a serious condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cFive people are in hospital, one of whom is in a serious condition and had to be transferred to Nampula Central Hospital,\u201d says a statement from the NGO, which observed the sixth local elections on 11 October and is monitoring the next electoral process across the country.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Renamo reported that at least six people were injured in the town of Angoche, Nampula province, allegedly after the PRM intervened during a protest against the municipal election results.<\/p>\n

According to a Renamo source, the wounded were shot by PRM officers during a demonstration in which a coffin with the symbols of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, in power) was displayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people here didn\u2019t do anything, it was simply because of the coffin, everyone has their own way of demonstrating, we don\u2019t know where the crime is and what legal type of crime the people have committed,\u201d described Renamo.<\/p>\n

Lusa tried to contact the PRM in Nampula, but has so far been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

The Constitutional Council, the last judicial instance for electoral appeals, gave the National Electoral Commission (CNE) a deadline of 24 hours, which expired on Thursday \u2013 it has since asked for an extension \u2013 to deliver election tabulation notices in several municipalities, including Angoche, following Renamo\u2019s appeal against the election results.<\/p>\n

The streets of some Mozambican cities, including Maputo, have been taken over by consecutive opposition demonstrations dubbed \u201crepudiation\u201d of the \u201cmega-fraud\u201d in the process involving the municipal elections on 11 October and the results announced by the CNE, which awarded victory to Frelimo in 64 of the country\u2019s 65 municipalities, and which have been strongly criticised by opposition parties, civil society and non-governmental organisations.<\/p>\n

Renamo, which in the previous 53 local councils (12 new local councils were created this year) was leading in eight, was left without any councils, despite claiming victory in the country\u2019s largest cities, on the basis of the original minutes and notices of polling stations, having appealed to the Constitutional Council, the last instance of appeal in the electoral process.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. 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