The massive fraud in the local elections looks like a dress rehearsal for Frelimo fixing the result of the presidential contest in October, All eyes are on the October general election, which will produce no surprises. Having practised the fraud in the municipal polls of October 2023, the ruling Frente de Libertaçao de Moçambique (Frelimo) will win after rigging on an epic scale. The electoral roll with be filled with thousands of ghost voters, especially in non-Frelimo dominated regions, backed by censorship of the media, intimidation of opposition election workers and candidates, corrupt police and judges, and abuses of all civic and electoral rights by the security forces.
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, Live fire from police resulted in several deaths over the 27-29 October weekend during nationwide protests against the decision of the Comissão Nacional de Eleições (CNE) to approve the preliminary results of the 11 October municipal elections, in which the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) purportedly won 64 out of 65 districts.
Evidence of mass vote-rigging in municipal elections has prompted public anger and infighting in the ruling party, Widespread protests followed ruling party Frente de Libertação de Moçambique s (Frelimo) declaration of a near clean sweep in the 11 October municipal elections, despite evidence from parallel counts of clear losses in a number of key areas, including the capital Maputo. In the results announced by the Comissão Nacional de Eleições (the electoral commission – CNE) on 13 October, Frelimo was declared the winner in 64 out of 65 municipalities. There was only one opposition victory: the city of Beira in Sofala Province, which has long been a stronghold of the Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (MDM).