, The Constitutional Court has re-allocated fraudulently won municipal elections between the ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) and the opposition Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) in a move which proves that crime pays , according to a report on the 11 October polls by the leading independent civil society organisation, the Centro de Integridade Pública (CIP).
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).