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Consolidation of the Recommendations made by International Elections Observers to the Mozambican Electoral System

Mozambique elections are conducted every five years periodically since the enactment of a new Constitution in 1992 for a multi party-political system holding first democratic elections in 1994. After the announcement by the President of Republic, sixth democratic elections were held for electing a president, members of the national assemblies and third elections for members of ten provincial assemblies in 2019. Governors for each province were elected for the first time. The elections for all three tiers took place on the same day whereby the voters cast ballots through three different ballot papers except for Maputo city voters where it does not have a provincial assembly. The president is elected through an absolute majority of the votes whereas the members in the national assembly and provincial assemblies are elected through proportional representation system using d’Hondt method for the calculation of seats. Two seats in the national assembly are represented through out of country voting where each seat is allocated for Africa and Rest of the World. There are 250 members for the national assembly and 794 members for 10 provincial assemblies. Every election endures challenges during implementation. Although Mozambique had quite strengthened Election Management Bodies (EMBs), numerous challenges have been experienced while implementing 2019 general and provincial elections that are credible, transparent, and accepted by electorates. EMBs manage to overcome some of the challenges through their previous experiences, technical assistance from international organization and following recommendations provided by observation groups in the previous elections. 2019 elections by and large were technically wellmanaged, however, some of the areas still require improvement embracing the international standard of electoral practices. Mozambique electoral process entails recommendations from the observers that could provide robust support for EMBs to enhance the credibility and transparency that ensue acceptance of the electoral process by all.

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