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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Vero\u0301nica Macamo, has summoned diplomatic missions in Mozambique to a meeting where she intends to provide information on the local elections, a move criticised by the opposition.<\/p>\n

Vero\u0301nica Macamo will receive diplomats at the Ministry in Maputo at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, according to an invitation letter made public by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) candidate for Maputo municipality, Vena\u0302ncio Mondlane.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ministry informs that the meeting aims to share information about the sixth local elections held in Mozambique, on October 11th\u201d, reads the letter addressed to all diplomatic missions and international organisations present in Maputo.<\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs Minister Vero\u0301nica Macamo is the Frelimo national election agent for the local elections, whose results are being strongly contested by the opposition parties, election observers and civil society. Diplomatic representations have asked publicly for the doubts raised to be properly clarified through legal means.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have no ground; Frelimo is completely barefoot,\u201d Mondlane said about the meeting. He claims victory in the elections in Maputo and again today took to the city\u2019s streets again in protest against the electoral results.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Maputo, based on the minutes and the real notices, 98,000 votes were taken from Renamo and attributed to Frelimo. It\u2019s horrible,\u201d he alleged , asking the Constitutional Council, as the entity of last resort, to \u201cfulfil its role\u201d.<\/p>\n

The streets of some Mozambican cities, including Maputo, have been taken over by consecutive opposition demonstrations dubbed as a \u201crepudiation\u201d of the \u201cmega fraud\u201d in the process involving the municipal elections on October 11th and the results announced by the National Elections Commission (CNE), which attributed victory to Frelimo in 64 of the country\u2019s 65 municipalities.<\/p>\n

On October 16, the United States acknowledged the \u201cmany credible reports of irregularities on voting day and during the vote tabulation process\u201d in Mozambican local elections, asking the country\u2019s authorities to consider all complaints presented.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on reports from U.S. Embassy and other observers, local media, party agents, election officials, and civil society organisations, voting day in the 65 municipalities was generally peaceful, but there are many credible reports of irregularities on voting day and during the vote tabulation process,\u201d the US embassy says in a note sent to the media.<\/p>\n

The Government of the United States of America asked that electoral authorities, local courts and the Constitutional Council of Mozambique take \u201call complaints of irregularities seriously\u201d and be impartial in their actions.<\/p>\n

Renamo, which led in eight of the previous 53 municipalities (12 new municipalities were created this year), was left without any municipality, despite claiming victory in the country\u2019s largest cities, based on the minutes and original notices of the polling stations, and has appealed to the Constitutional Council, the last instance of appeal in the electoral process, which recently asked the CNE and political parties for the original minutes and notices of several assemblies.<\/p>\n

Initially, some district courts recognized irregularities in the electoral process and ordered the repetition of several electoral acts.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Vero\u0301nica Macamo, has summoned diplomatic missions in Mozambique to a meeting where she intends to provide information on the local elections, a move criticised by the opposition. 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