Mozambique's ruling party wins general elections
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E-mail Xinhua, October 31, 2014
Mozambique's electoral authorities on Thursday announced the official results of the general elections, saying that Filipe Nyusi, the candidate of the ruling Frelimo party, is elected as the fourth president since the southern African country's independence in 1975.
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File photo taken on October 12, 2014 on the outskirts of Maputo shows Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) presidential candidate Filipe Nyusi addressing a crowd of supporters during the FRELIMO final presidential and legislative campaign rally. Nyusi has been elected Mozambique's next president, the National Electoral Commission said on October 30, 2014.[Xinhua photo] |
Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the executive body of the National Elections Committee (CNE), said the 55-year-old Nyusi won 57.3 percent of support during the Oct. 15 presidential race, while Afonso Dhlakama, the leader and candidate of the main opposition Renamo, gained 36.61 percent of votes.
It said Daviz Simango, the candidate of opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) and mayor of Beira, got 6.36 percent.
The STAE also announced that the ruling Frelimo won the parliamentary and provincial elections as well, with 144 seats in the 250-member Parliament and 485 seats in the provincial assemblies.
Comparing to the current Parliament, Frelimo dropped from 191 seats, while the former rebel movement Renamo increased by 38 seats to 89, and the MDM increased from 8 seats to 17 in third.
As to the provincial assemblies, Renamo gained 295 seats while MDM won 31.
According to law, the country's Constitutional Council, the body in charge of election matters, will afterwards have 45 days to validate the results.
However,the former rebel movement Renamo on Tuesday claimed victory in the general elections, and said it would not accept any results which did not agree with its own count, during the party's regional conference held in Beira.
Furthermore, Mozambique police authorities all over the country on Thursday have been announcing that the police is reinforcing its contingent in every region of the country, in order to maintain calm and tranquility after the announcement of elections results on Thursday afternoon.
Incidents are highly expected in central and northern regions of the country, particularly in Sofala and Zambezia province where the opposition has significant support.
Nearly 11 million Mozambicans were registered to vote but according to the STAE, only 5.33 million casted their votes in the Oct. 15 elections.
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