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Mozambique: Frelimo´s Strategy to Manipulate Elections

Mozambique: Frelimo´s Strategy to Manipulate Elections

Frelimo is preparing for the sixth presidential and legislative elections in the country at the most troublesome time internally since the introduction of multiparty democracy in the country. Fractured by internal divisions exacerbated by the scandal of the illegal foreign debts and detention of party figures (AM 1192), and facing a historically low popularity - in the last municipal elections, its vote was only 1ppc higher than that of the opposition (Renamo and MDM) - the party is implementing measures to allow the manipulation of electoral results on a large-scale, in order to ensure an absolute majority in Parliament and a presidential victory for Filipe Nyusi. READ MORE