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Mozambique police and protester during protests against the results of the October 2024 elections.
The defeated candidate in Mozambique’s general elections, Venâncio Mondlane, calls for the continuation of the “panelaço” in the protests that have been heard loudly in the country and that have already caused dozens of deaths.
The “Decide” electoral platform revealed that 22 people died in three days of demonstrations in Mozambique, against the results of the October 9 elections. There were also 23 people shot and 80 detained.
Mass The death toll now stands at more than 60 since the beginning of those that began as soon as the Daniel Chapo victorypresidential candidate supported by Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation Front), the party that has been in power since the country’s independence.
Mozambique experienced the third day of the so-called “third phase” of the fourth stage of strikes and demonstrations of contestation of the electoral results called by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who denies Daniel Chapo’s victory with 70.67% of the votes.
Mondlane said it will release it on Tuesday a new phase of protestsinsisting that the protests are to continue “until the electoral truth is restored”.
“Panelaço” for Frelimo’s “liberation of Mozambique”
The candidate therefore calls for the continuation of the “protest” which has left several Mozambican cities immersed in a deafening noise – a noise that does not allow the revolt to be silenced at a time that some define as one of “liberation of Mozambique” after almost 50 years of Frelimo power.
Many Mozambicans have demonstrated with pans, whistles, drums and chants on the streets, with calls for a ““.
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The National Electoral Commission of Mozambique announced that Mondlane came second in the vote, with 20.32% of the votes. But the candidate does not recognize the results that have yet to be validated and proclaimed by the Constitutional Council.
This Council does not have deadlines for this purpose and is still analyzing the dispute.
